STEPHANIE BLAHA has been appointed principal horn of Ohio’s ProMusica Chamber Orchestra. ILYA SHTERENBERG is the orchestra’s new principal clarinet.
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra has appointed KEITH CERNY president and CEO, and STANISLAV CHERNYSHEV as principal clarinet.
LAURA COLGATE is the El Paso Symphony Orchestra’s new concertmaster.
The Valley Symphony Orchestra in McAllen, Texas, has named KATY COY executive director.
RICHARD EGARR, a British conductor, keyboardist, and early-music specialist, will become an artistic partner at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra effective in September 2019.
BEN FAIRFIELD has been appointed co-principal trumpet of the Midland-Odessa Symphony in Texas.
Utah’s Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra has named LORI FISHER executive director.
NELL FLANDERS is the Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s new assistant conductor.
ERIC GARCIA will become artistic director and conductor of McCall Music Society’s SummerFest, an annual classical and pops series in McCall, Idaho, in July 2019. Garcia is also music director of the Boise Philharmonic.
The Houston Symphony has added violinist PATRICIA QUINTERO GARCIA and violist ALEXA SANGBIN THOMASON to its Community-Embedded Musicians initiative.
GIORGIA GHIZZONI has been appointed executive director of Colorado’s Longmont Symphony Orchestra.
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music has named ED HARSH to the newly created position of director of strategic initiatives. Harsh recently concluded an eleven-year tenure as president and CEO of New Music USA.
The Las Vegas Philharmonic has appointed LACEY HUSZCZA executive director.
The Seattle Symphony has named NOAH GELLER concertmaster and JAMES BENOIT principal timpani.
PAM S. HERSHBERGER is the new board chair of Ohio’s Toledo Symphony Orchestra.
Boston Baroque has appointed JENNIFER RITVO HUGHES executive director.
At the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JAMES EDWARD DUNN has been named to the new position of assistant conductor, community engagement.
AL JACOBSEN is the new executive director of Miller Symphony Hall in Allentown, Pennsylvania, home to the Allentown Symphony Orchestra.
The Louisville Orchestra has appointed KEN JOHNSON interim executive director, following the departure of Andrew Kipe in June 2018.
MICHAEL MATTEO, principal percussionist in Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, has been named the organization’s new board president.
The Reno Chamber Orchestra in Nevada has appointed THOM MAYES executive director.
NICHOLAS McGEGAN will step down at the end of the 2019-20 season as music director of California’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, after more than three decades leading the group.
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has appointed GEMMA NEW principal guest conductor. BRADLEY HUNTER WELCH has been named resident organist.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has named CHRISTOPHER PELL principal clarinet, CHRISTOPHER SALES principal bassoon, and ROBERT SULLIVAN principal trumpet.
TOMMY PHILLIPS has been appointed president and artistic director of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County in California.
The Venice Symphony in Florida has named TROY QUINN music director.
The Wallace Foundation has named BAHIA RAMOS director of arts.
MICHAEL REMSON is the new president and CEO of the San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory.
The Minnesota Orchestra has appointed ERICH RIEPPEL principal timpani and FELICITY JAMES as associate concertmaster.
VANESSA ROSE is the new president and CEO of the American Composers Forum, the St. Paul, Minnesota-based service organization for composers.
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has named DERRICK SPIVA JR. to the newly created position of artist educator.
MICHAEL TETREAULT has been appointed principal percussion of Colorado’s Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. JAMES ANDRUS is the orchestra’s new principal tuba.
The Rhode Island Philharmonic has named conductor BRAMWELL TOVEY artistic advisor, succeeding longtime conductor Larry Rachleff.
Cellist CARRINGTON TRUEHART and violist ROSA ORTEGA have been selected as 2018-19 participants in the IRIS Orchestra’s IRIS Artist Fellow program, based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Michigan’s Grand Rapids Symphony has named MARY TUUK president and CEO, effective early 2019.
WILLIAM WELTER is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s new principal oboe.
