“The board of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has tapped two insiders—including a former vice president who has been with the organization since 1989—to lead the state’s largest musical ensemble,” writes Peggy McGlone in Wednesday’s (6/26) Star-Ledger (Newark). “Acting principal oboe player James Roe will be president and CEO, and interim president and former vice president Susan Stucker will become COO, the orchestra announced. The pair, selected by a search committee working since March, will begin their new jobs July 1. They succeed Richard Dare, who spent nine days in January as president and CEO before resigning…. Dare had been CEO of the Brooklyn Philharmonic…. ‘The CEO will be primarily outward facing, and my areas will be marketing and development, and the COO will be inward facing,’ Roe, 45, said.… In addition to performing—with the NJSO, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, among others—Roe has led the Helicon Foundation [a chamber-music presenter] in New York City since 2006.… He holds degrees in music from Michigan State University and Juilliard. Stucker, 46, has worked at the orchestra since 1989. She helped to launch the Greater Newark Youth Orchestra and has been vice president of operations and general manager since 2002.”
Posted June 26, 2013
Photo of James Roe and Susan Stucker courtesy Fred Stucker/NJSO
