{"id":3894,"date":"2010-12-03T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub.passdrop.me\/2010\/12\/03\/obituary-artist-manager-byron-gustafson-56-2\/"},"modified":"2010-12-03T12:15:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T12:15:43","slug":"obituary-artist-manager-byron-gustafson-56-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/symphony.org\/obituary-artist-manager-byron-gustafson-56-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Artist manager Byron Gustafson, 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In Wednesday&rsquo;s (12\/1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/185234\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Duluth News Tribune<\/i><\/a>  (Minnesota), Christa Lawler writes, &ldquo;A Duluth Central graduate who went on to have a successful career as a managing partner in a firm that managed musical performers died Nov. 22 in his home in Manhattan. Byron Gustafson, whose company Opus 3 Artists managed the careers and tours of artists like Suzanne Vega and Patti LuPone, was 56.&rdquo; In addition to his work with a wide variety of orchestras and classical artists, the article reports that &ldquo;Gustafson was instrumental in bringing several classical musicians to perform as guest artists with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra&mdash;including the violinist Midori in 2005. He retired in September 2009 with complications from Lou Gehrig&rsquo;s disease. &hellip; Andrew Berryhill, the executive director of the DSSO, knew Gustafson professionally, and said he was a pleasure to work with. &lsquo;I always knew he was someone I could call and have a good discussion about artists,&rsquo; Berryhill said. Gustafson managed violinist Tai Murray, and pianists Orli Shaham and Joyce Yang, who also have appeared with the DSSO.&rdquo; For more information about Byron Gustafson, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/artists\/byron-gustafson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Opus 3 website<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p> Posted December 3, 2010 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> In Wednesday&rsquo;s (12\/1) <i>Duluth News Tribune<\/i> (Minnesota), Christa Lawler writes, &ldquo;A Duluth Central graduate who went on to have a successful career as a managing partner in a firm that managed musical performers died Nov. 22 in his home &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"topic":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obituary: Artist manager Byron Gustafson, 56 - 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