“The Santa Rosa Symphony announced Tuesday that Bruno Ferrandis, the fourth music director in the 87-year history of the orchestra, will step down when his contract expires at the end of the 2017-2018 season,” writes Diane Peterson in Tuesday’s (11/17) Press-Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA). “Paris resident Ferrandis, 55 … joined the symphony in 2006, helped usher the orchestra from the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts into its new home at the Green Music Center’s Weill Hall in 2012.… Santa Rosa Symphony Executive Director Alan Silow said [a] 10-member search committee … will eventually select five finalists, who will try out with the symphony during the first five concert sets of the 2017-2018 season…. Silow said Ferrandis’ exit is timed well, with the orchestra playing at a high level, support for the orchestra strong and its finances on sound footing. He credited the conductor’s winning personality for helping elevate the orchestra…. Ferrandis said that stepping down from the Santa Rosa post will allow him to do more guest conducting and opera conducting. However, he said it will be difficult to leave the orchestra, as well as the audience. ‘The audience loves their music and are curious and patient with me introducing new music,’ he said.”
Posted November 18, 2015
