Tallahassee Symphony Selects Five Music Director Finalists

In Friday’s (3/8) Tallahassee Democrat, Marina Brown writes, “Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra members and the loyal music lovers who have supported the orchestra for the last 45 years will have to keep holding their breaths for a while longer to discover who will be the TSO’s next conductor, replacing Maestro Darko Butorac. On Thursday, at an elegant reception in the TSO’s new offices in the Garden Club of Tallahassee, the five finalists were introduced to donors and the press via big screen videos…. The finalists, who will be visiting over the next season, are Conner Gray Covington, Daniel Black, Wesley Schulz, Kellen Gray and Yaniv Dinur…. Each [will] conduct a live program of their own choosing … ‘We initially had 159 applications after advertising with the League of American Orchestras and the International Conductor’s Guild,’ Mandy Stringer, executive director of the TSO, said. ‘We also hired a respected consultant, Henry Fogel, formerly Chief Executive of the Chicago Symphony, Vice-President of the New York Philharmonic, and CEO of the League of American Orchestras.’… Stringer says that the TSO musicians will have a 50% input into the selection process, and the Board of Directors and Music Director Search Committee led by Steve Mindlin, another 50%.”