“The National Symphony Orchestra named its next executive director, Gary Ginstling, currently the chief executive of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, on Monday morning,” reports Anne Midgette in Monday’s (6/5) Washington Post. “His official start date has not been determined, but he will begin working with the orchestra July 1, as he plans the timing of a move to Washington with his wife and two school-age children. His predecessor, Rita Shapiro, stepped down in January. Ginstling, 51, offers a combination of relative youth, a wide range of experience in top-tier orchestras (including stints as director of communications for the San Francisco Symphony and as general manager of the Cleveland Orchestra), and more than 12 years of experience as an orchestral clarinetist.… Some of the field’s top executives speak of Ginstling in glowing terms. ‘He’s a true institutional leader,’ says Gary Hanson, the former executive director of the Cleveland Orchestra.… Ginstling arrives at a time of significant transition for the NSO. He will start his tenure at the same time as Gianandrea Noseda, who will officially be welcomed as the NSO’s music director at a free concert on the Mall on July 29.”
Posted June 5, 2017
Photo of National Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Christoph Eschenbach by Margot Ingoldsby Schulman. Inset photo of Gary Ginstling by Tod Martens
