DANIELLE ALLEN, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s manager of global affairs, has been named the organization’s director of education and community.
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has appointed MARTY BATES executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Canada’s Winnipeg Symphony has selected ANGELA BIRDSELL as executive director, effective July 5. She succeeds Trudy Schroeder, who is stepping down after 13 seasons with the organization.
The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra has hired SUZ BREWER as chief marketing officer.
MÉLISSE BRUNET, music director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, has been chosen as director of orchestral activities at the University of Iowa School of Music.
Pennsylvania’s Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras has appointed PIERCE COOK as conductor of its Symphonette string ensemble.
The Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra has chosen TODD CRAVEN as music director, effective with the 2021-22 season.
The Asheville Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina has appointed DANIEL CRUPI as executive director, effective in July.
CAMILLE DELANEY-McNEIL has been named director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new YOLA Center at Inglewood, set to open in August and welcome its first students in the fall.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director GUSTAVO DUDAMEL has been named to the additional post of music director of the Paris Opera, beginning in August.
KEMPER EDWARDS has joined Michigan’s Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra as director of marketing and communications.
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Carolina Performing Arts has named ALISON FRIEDMAN as executive and artistic director, effective in October. Friedman succeeds program founder Emil Kang, who departed in 2019 to become program director for arts and cultural heritage at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
American conductor KELLEN GRAY has been appointed assistant conductor at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
The Curtis Institute of Music has added woodwind quintet IMANI WINDS to its faculty. Curtis instructor ED GAZOULEAS, a former longtime violist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is Curtis’s new artistic director.
ERIC JACOBSEN has been appointed music director of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, effective July 1. Jacobsen succeeds JoAnn Falletta, who stepped down in 2020 after 29 years as. music director.
TERELL M. JOHNSON has been named executive director of the Chicago Philharmonic, effective July 1.
The Cleveland Institute of Music has appointed CARLOS KALMAR as principal conductor and director of orchestral and conducting programs. Kalmar will retain his position as artistic director and principal conductor of Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival.
Composer DAVID SERKIN LUDWIG has been chosen as dean and director of the Juilliard School’s music division.
FABIO LUISI, music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, has been named to the additional post of chief conductor of Japan’s NHK Symphony Orchestra, effective in September.
ENRIQUE MÁRQUEZ has been named director of music at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan
Australia’s Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has named JAIME MARTÍN principal conductor, effective January 2022.
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has named KATIE McGUINNESS as vice president of artistic operations, succeeding Peter Czornyj. Violinist and conductor
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN has been appointed as artistic and principal education partner at the DSO, starting in September.
PAUL MEECHAM has been selected as CEO of Arizona’s Tucson Symphony.
JESSIE MONTGOMERY has been tapped as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s next composer in residence, a three-year appointment effective July 1.
Missouri’s Springfield Symphony Orchestra has named TERY O’SHELL as development manager.
TAYLOR RAMBO has been appointed executive director of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, effective July 1. Rambo will succeed Susan Stensland, who is retiring.
DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN has been appointed to the new position of artistic catalyst at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
Germany’s Berlin Symphony has named HANSJÖRG SCHELLENBERGER, former longtime principal oboe of the Berlin Philharmonic, as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2021-22 season.
Bass-baritone DAVÓNE TINES has been appointed to a one-year position as creative partner at California’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.
Indiana’s La Porte County Symphony Orchestra has hired CAROLYN WATSON as music director, effective August 1.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic has appointed RENAE WILLIAMS NILES as chief content and engagement officer, a newly created position.