VANESSA ROSE-PRIDEMORE has been promoted to associate director, patron program and membership at the Metropolitan Opera. A 2006 graduate of the Orchestra Management Fellowship Program of the League of American Orchestras, Rose-Pridemore is a former member of the League’s Development Department staff, and a freelance violinist.
Category: Who’s In
Artistic: Utah Sym
The Utah Symphony has appointed GERALD STEICHEN principal pops conductor; his arrival comes as Keith Lockhart prepares to step down as music director in May of this year. Steichen, currently music director of the Ridgefield (Conn.) Symphony and associate conductor of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, has conducted such U.S. organizations as the Boston Pops and New York Pops; the Utah, New Jersey, Hartford, Wheeling, and Eastern Connecticut symphony orchestras; and the New York City Opera Orchestra. He has also led the NDR Orchestra (Hanover, Germany), Oslo’s NRK Orchestra, and the Tokyo City Symphony. A native of Oklahoma, Steichen holds degrees from Northern Oklahoma College, Oklahoma City University, and the University of Southern California.
Administrative: Juilliard
The Juilliard School has announced the appointment of composer and administrator VIRGINIA ALLEN as associate dean for administration. Allen has taught conducting at Juilliard, co-founded and conducted the Juilliard Trombone Choir, and served as executive director of Juilliard’s Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies. She was the first woman conductor of the U.S. Army Field Band and The Soldiers’ Chorus in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point, the U.S. Army Forces Command Band in Atlanta, and the West Point Glee Club. Allen holds a bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s in performance from The Catholic University of America, and is currently completing a doctoral degree at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Administrative: Cleveland Orch
The Cleveland Orchestra has named SUSAN HOFFMAN to the newly created post of director, patron relationship management, effective February 16. Hoffman comes to Cleveland from the Adrian (Mich.) Symphony Orchestra, where she has been the orchestra’s top administrator for the past 22 years. She has served on the faculty of the League of American Orchestras’ Orchestra Leadership Academy, as a participant in the League’s Institutional Vision Program, and as vice-chair for the Policy C Group orchestras. Hoffman is a graduate of Adrian College.