New Resident Orchestra at San Antonio’s Tobin Center for the Performing Arts

In last Thursday’s (4/11) KSTX Texas Public Radio, Jack Morgan reports, “A surprise announcement on Tuesday elevated the Classical Music Institute into a new role at the Tobin Center…. The Orchestra San Antonio (TOSA) will be the Tobin Center’s new resident symphony. At the heart of TOSA is CEO Paul Montalvo, who was a San Antonio firefighter for 26 years. ‘I got my music degree and music composition at UTSA in 2002. And then co-founded the Chamber Orchestra San Antonio in ’08,’ he said. That chamber orchestra educational arm melded into the Classical Music Institute, which formed the core of what he said now becomes the Orchestra San Antonio…. TOSA is at this point still in the planning stages…. They are planning their first performance season for next spring…. Given the selection of TOSA as the new resident orchestra at the Tobin, you may be wondering about the San Antonio Philharmonic, the city’s other professional orchestra…. Former San Antonio Express-News critic Mike Greenberg said that both organizations have high aspirations and talent, though there is an important difference between them: ‘Classical Music Institute [is] a non-union shop.’… Greenberg said there’s a lot of talent in both organizations and they both deserve to exist.”