The Score | Atlanta Symphony Taps Barlament as Executive Director

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has named Jennifer Barlament executive director following an international search. She takes up duties this January, succeeding Terry Neal, who had led the ASO administration on an interim basis since October 2014. Barlament goes to Atlanta from the Cleveland Orchestra, where she was general manager. Before assuming that post in 2013 she spent four years as executive director of Michigan’s Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and seven as general manager of the Omaha Symphony in Nebraska. In 2013 the League of American Orchestras awarded Barlament its Helen M. Thompson Award for outstanding early-career work as an executive director. Barlament is a clarinetist by training, with a bachelor’s degree in music from Emory University and a master’s from the Eastman School of Music, where she founded the New Eastman Symphony.