Dallas Symphony CEO Kim Noltemy to Become Head of Los Angeles Philharmonic in July

In Thursday’s (5/2) Dallas Morning News, Scott Cantrell writes, “Kim Noltemy, president and CEO of the Dallas Symphony Association since January 2018, will leave in June to head the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The appointment will be officially announced on Thursday…. The announcement comes during one of the Dallas Symphony’s most ambitious undertakings, semi-staged performances of the first two operas of Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung. The whole four-opera cycle will be presented in October. And in June the orchestra goes on its first European tour since 2013 … Noltemy presided over the appointment of Fabio Luisi as the orchestra’s music director in 2020 … Under her leadership, the DSO adapted to pandemic challenges … She also led the orchestra’s adoption of increasingly sophisticated video livestreams of performances…. In her second year at the orchestra, Noltemy launched the annual Women in Classical Music symposium, to address career challenges and opportunities. And she committed the DSO to tapping women composers for 50% of new music commissions. Noltemy expanded the DSO’s education and youth programs … In L.A., Noltemy will lead the search for the orchestra’s next music director…. Noltemy came to the DSO with wide experience at the Boston Symphony Orchestra: starting in 1996 in sales and marketing, she ultimately became chief operating and communications officer.”