Roberto Treviño, executive director of the San Antonio Philharmonic, in the music library of the former San Antonio Symphony. Photo by Scott Ball/San Antonio Report.
In Wednesday’s (9/6) San Antonio Report (Texas), Nicholas Frank writes, “After a successful inaugural season, the San Antonio Philharmonic orchestra begins its second season Sept. 22 with its first executive director Roberto Treviño in place. Hired in June, Treviño said he recognizes the Philharmonic’s musicians as inheritors of the 83-year history of the former San Antonio Symphony and feels empowered to realize his vision of building connections with the orchestra’s diverse community…. Though representation of Black, Indigenous and people of color in orchestra administrations throughout the U.S. is improving, a Latino executive director remains rare…. Treviño: ‘Part of my responsibility is to be a bridge to a newer, broader audience. When people talk about the symphony in the past tense, they talk about how a community like the one we’re in right now didn’t relate…. I see myself fitting in, in terms of that evolution. We’re going to grow our audience, and we’re going to grow in a way that reflects our demographics, reflects the people here…. I look around this community and I see faces that look like my face when I was a kid…. If I can connect and inspire somebody, and us as an organization, then we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing.’ ”
