David Whitehill.
The Manchester Music Festival in Vermont has named David Whitehill as executive director. Whitehill will be responsible for the administrative leadership of the organization, which presents a five-week summer chamber music festival featuring acclaimed professional musicians and operates a competitive Young Artists Program, both scheduled this year for July 10-Aug. 7. Whitehill assumes the role at MMF effective Feb. 24, 2025. Philip Setzer, a founding member of the Emerson String Quartet, is the festival’s artistic director. Whitehill goes to the Manchester Festival from the Reading Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania, where he serves as executive director; he previously served as executive director of the Asheville Symphony (North Carolina) and the Bangor Symphony Orchestra (Maine). Whitehill was an arts administrator at the Laguna Beach Music Festival in Orange County, Calif. He also created Asheville Amadeus, a biennial festival celebrating creativity within the community. In California, Whitehill was an administrator with the Pacific Symphony and the Philharmonic Society, where he worked with ensembles including the London, Israel, Warsaw, and New York philharmonic orchestras. Whitehill is a former board member of the League of American Orchestras. In 2019, Musical America recognized Whitehill as one of the Top 30 Professionals of the Performing Arts.
