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The League of American Orchestras has announced the appointment of Ken Cole as Vice President, Learning and Leadership Development, succeeding Polly Kahn, who steps down from the post in June after fourteen years. Cole’s responsibilities include overseeing the League’s National Conference; producing and managing its professional development, artistic, and regranting programs; and managing peer convenings among staff, trustees, volunteers, and conductors. He began his League position on June 2 while continuing to work at the National Guild for Community Arts Education, where he has served as associate director since 2008. He assumes full-time duties at the League on September 2. Prior to joining the National Guild in 2004, Cole was director of advancement at the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. He has served as executive director of GALA Choruses; development director of the Fairfax (Va.) Symphony Orchestra; and development associate at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. For more than a decade he was a professional violist, performing in the Fairfax Symphony and the Baton Rouge (La.) Symphony Orchestra. Cole holds a bachelor’s degree in viola from Oberlin College Conservatory and a master’s in viola from Louisiana State University.
NJSO to Audience: Play With Us
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s postconcert event dubbed #OrchestraYou, held in the lobby of Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center on March 15, really had people buzzing. The orchestra invited members of the audience—concertgoers, students, music teachers, parents—to bring their instruments and perform with NJSO musicians in the “Toreadors” segment from Bizet’s Carmen. Anastasia Tsioulcas, an NPR arts reporter and self-described rusty musician who brought her violin and participated in the project, wrote, “Not only was it incredibly fun, but it served as a good reminder that music-making shouldn’t be divided into producers and consumers, with most people locked into a passive experience.” At #OrchestraYou, NJSO Education and Community Engagement Conductor Jeffrey Grogan said, “The energy in the room was indescribable.”
Vänskä Returns as Minnesota Orchestra Music Director
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Osmo Vänskä resumed his music directorship of the Minnesota Orchestra on May 1, after signing a new two-year contract. He will conduct the orchestra for a minimum of ten weeks in each of the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, and has accepted the same 15 percent reduction in pay that Minnesota Orchestra musicians agreed to in the January 2014 contract that ended a sixteenmonth lockout. The orchestra’s top artistic post had been vacant since last October, when Vänskä, music director since 2003, resigned during the labor dispute. “We are happy to be able to reunite Osmo and the orchestra to deliver outstanding musical performances for our community and to extend their celebrated musical partnership,” said Board Chair Gordon Sprenger.
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