The San Francisco Symphony has appointed DAVID CHAMBERS as chief revenue and advancement officer. He will oversee the organization’s philanthropic, audience, and volunteer development activities as well as its marketing and communications team. Chambers joins the San Francisco Symphony from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where he has been vice president for development since October 2017. Prior to that, Chambers was chief development officer of the Houston Symphony from 2011 to 2017. He also served as interim co-executive director of the Houston Symphony while it conducted an executive-director search. Chambers has held positions at Houston Grand Opera leading institutional and corporate giving; as national publicist for Opera Australia; and as publicist for the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Sydney and Playbox Theatre Centre in Melbourne. A native of Australia, Chambers holds a bachelor of business degree from the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne.
Posted July 31, 2018
