Sergey Bogza. Photo courtesy of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.
In Friday’s (11/8) Business Journal Daily (Youngstown, Ohio), Guy D’Astolfo writes, “Sergey Bogza’s short tenure as leader of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra has come to an end. The YSO announced Friday that Bogza has resigned as music director and conductor ‘due to personal, health and family reasons,’ according to Matt Pagac, CEO of the Youngstown Symphony Society. Bogza was hired effective July 1 but missed the first two performances of the season, including last weekend’s ‘Back to the Future’ concerts. His resignation was effective Nov. 7. ‘Though Sergey’s circumstances prevent him from serving as the YSO music director, we are grateful to have met and engaged with him for a short time,’ Pagac said in a press release. ‘We wish him well.’… The search for a new music director began after the death of Randall Craig Fleischer, who previously held the position, in 2020. Bogza … applied for the job in 2022 and was interviewed earlier this year…. Bogza was hired as music director of the Panama City (Fla.) Symphony in 2022 and presumably will continue in that role…. [The Youngstown Symphony] will rely on other conductors to fill in for the remaining concerts of the 2024-25 season.”
