Longtime San Francisco Symphony Executive Director Brent Assink will step down at the end of March 2017, the San Francisco Symphony announced Tuesday.
Assink, 61, who has held the post since 1999, is the fourth Executive Director of the San Francisco Symphony since the position was created in 1939. Others were Howard Skinner (1939-1964), Joseph Scafidi (1965-1978) and Peter Pastreich (1978-1999). Assink also served as the Symphony’s General Manager from 1990 to 1994.
"These have been years of enormous change — in society, in technology, in the way Americans think about orchestral music and its place in their lives," Assink said in the release. "I will always cherish my time here and marvel that I have been able to lead an organization unafraid of change and eager to embrace challenges that opened new ways of experiencing music." Keep reading...
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The first-ever Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition has extended its application deadline to Oct. 28. Click here for more information about applying.
All applicants must be at least 16 at the time of the original submission date, Sept. 30, 2016) and no older than 32 by the conclusion of the competition on Feb. 5, 2017. Finalists will be notified by email by December 1, 2016. Keep reading...
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