“Utah Symphony ǀ Utah Opera has hired Paul Meecham as president and CEO,” writes Catherine Reese Newton in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday (2/2). “He replaces Melia Tourangeau, who left for a job as president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Symphony last summer.” USUO’s interim president and CEO since Tourangeau’s departure has been Patricia A. Richards, who is also chair of the League of American Orchestras. “Meecham, 58, was born in Bath, England, and earned a bachelor’s degree in music publishing, then arts administration…. He held management positions at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and London Sinfonietta before coming to the United States 19 years ago as general manager of the San Francisco Symphony. Stints as general manager of the New York Philharmonic and executive director of the Seattle Symphony followed; he has been executive director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2006. ‘I certainly wasn’t looking to leave,’ he said in a phone interview from Baltimore on Monday, but the Utahns were ‘quietly persistent.’ ” Before relocating to Utah with his family, writes Newton, Meecham “needs to wrap up centennial celebrations at the BSO and play host to the League of American Orchestras’ national conference” scheduled for June 9-11, 2016.
Posted February 3, 2016
Photo of Paul Meecham by Al Hartmann / The Salt Lake Tribune
