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Chief Development Officer Boston Symphony Orchestra

Boston, MA https://www.bso.org/

Send Nominations or Cover Letter and Resume to: Libby Roberts Senior Vice President 617-262-1102 extension 225 lroberts@LindauerGlobal.com

Introduction

Now in its 138th season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra

(BSO) is the world’s largest orchestral organization in terms

of its scope of offerings and is among the finest in the art

form worldwide — its range of performance, educational,

and community programs engage more than 1.2 million

people each year.

The BSO has led the way in programming that makes

classical and popular music accessible and relevant to

today’s listening audiences. It reaches listeners, not only

through its concert performances in Boston and at Tanglewood, but also via the internet, radio, television,

educational programs, recordings, and tours.

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra commissions works from

today's most important composers; its summer season at

Tanglewood is among the world's most important music

festivals; it helps develop future audiences through BSO

Youth Concerts and educational outreach programs involving

the entire Boston community; and, during the Tanglewood

season, it operates the Tanglewood Music Center, one of the

world's most important training grounds for young

professional-caliber musicians. The Boston Symphony

Chamber Players, made up of BSO principals, are known

worldwide, and the Boston Pops Orchestra sets an international standard for performances of lighter music.

The Opportunity:

Do You Have the Right Skills and Qualities?

• Have you the vision and the sophisticated strategic thinking to lead the BSO to a new level of

philanthropic success?

• Do your skills include comprehensive state of the art development skills, advanced communication

skills, and operational experience for large fund-raising campaigns?

• Are you passionate about your work?

• Are you an innovator? A change agent? Would you describe yourself as an active, creative, thought

partner?

• Are you collaborative? Do you enjoy and get inspired by energetic leadership with volunteers and

colleagues?

• Are you unafraid to challenge your peers in a constructive way?

• Are you an accomplished, metrics-driven leader?

• A transformational campaign is on the horizon. Have you led or been in a leadership role in a

successful campaign?

• Have you solicited and closed seven- or eight-figure gifts?

• Are you a dynamic role model for your staff?

• Do you have the personality and confidence to initiate and effectively work with community leaders

who may or may not be patrons or corporate sponsors?

• Does spending significant time at Tanglewood during the summers work for you?

• With recent Board and governance transitions, you will need leverage the many talents of these

volunteers. Can you navigate new leadership styles and respectfully challenge “the way it’s always

been done?”

• Do you have experience working in the arts and culture arena? Or a passion for the arts?

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Position Overview – Chief Development Officer

As an integral part of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s senior management team, the Chief Development

Officer (CDO) is responsible for development of overall strategic contributed revenue goals and is the

executive directly responsible for operational execution of the BSO’s philanthropic efforts in support of the

organization’s mission and vision for the future. The CDO leads a team of approximately 36 individuals,

which currently includes seven direct reports.

The newly formed Philanthropy Committee has fiduciary oversight of the Development function, and it will

work closely with the CDO to establish a partnership between the Board of Trustees and staff. Increased

transparency between the board and the staff on all development issues is essential. The goal is to create

a pervasive culture of philanthropy with transparency between board and staff. This will involve regular

reporting on fund-raising to the Board and Committee through a detailed dashboard of relevant matrices

and other effective means of communication.

Essential Functions:

Reporting to Mark Volpe, the President/Chief Executive Officer, the CDO will collaborate with other senior

executives, development staff, and Board members to develop overall strategy for philanthropic activities in

support of the BSO’s mission:

• Originate, articulate, implement, and manage operational plans for all development activities,

including engagement, solicitation, and stewardship of donors and prospects.

• Lead, mentor, and motivate a highly skilled, experienced, and effective team prepared to meet the

ongoing challenges of engaging a diverse community of donors; measure and evaluate the

performance and productivity of the staff of direct reports.

• Collaborate effectively with senior management, Board leadership, trustees, advisors, key

volunteers, and development staff to create a culture of philanthropy that fosters and encourages

transformative gifts.

• In partnership with the Chief Operating Officer, ensure that departments responsible for contributed

and earned revenue work collaboratively to optimize and maximize lifetime value of all patrons.

• Serve as management liaison to Board Committee on Philanthropy. Provide strategic and logistical

guidance to volunteer ambassadors and solicitors.

• Effectively enhance existing procedures to ensure the BSO’s fundraising operation sets and adheres

to best practices, utilizing all mechanisms for generating philanthropic support, including maintaining

a robust planned giving program.

• Personally engage in solicitation and stewardship activities individually, and in collaboration with the

President/CEO, senior management and program directors, development staff, and members of the

Board, Trustees, and Board of Advisors.

• Manage a small portfolio of prospects capable of making gifts of $1 million+. This portfolio will

include a mix of current donors and new prospects, primarily in the Boston area, Berkshires of

western Massachusetts, New York, and Florida.

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• Provide strategic counsel on governance nominating matters to Chief Strategy Officer & Corporate

Clerk.

• Maintain a leadership style that is open and empowers staff through active communication and

delegation.

• Strengthen and manage Development infrastructure including staff training, procedures, reporting,

software applications, and other resources necessary to achieve ambitious contributed revenue

goals.

• Oversee drafting and management of Development Office expense budgets.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience and demonstrated success setting

and exceeding ambitious philanthropic goals.

• Extensive knowledge of best practices in institutional advancement functions, including all

contributed revenue streams, stewardship, and development operations.

• A metrics-driven, entrepreneurial mindset that informs strategy and work.

• Previous campaign experience and direct involvement with solicitations at the $1 million+ gift level.

• Collaborative team player with ability to partner and work closely with high-level decision makers,

trustees, and other leaders, as well as other internal and external constituencies.

• Excellent interpersonal skills to build strong relationships and adapt to the needs of diverse groups

of individuals at all levels of the organization.

• Strong management skills with demonstrated success in building, managing, leading, and motivating

development professionals toward achieving team goals and implementing best practices.

• High degree of commitment to confidentiality with the ability to handle complex situations with

diplomacy and tact.

• Well-developed listening, oral, and written communication skills.

• Excellent time and project management skills with an ability to manage and prioritize multiple high-

level projects simultaneously.

• Passion for the arts is a must; though deep knowledge of classical music is not a prerequisite,

familiarity is a plus.

• Ability and flexibility to travel and to attend concerts in Boston, Tanglewood, New York, and on tour.

• This position requires spending significant time at Tanglewood for the summer season.

• Bachelor’s degree required.

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Development Overview

In FY2018, the BSO raised $50 million total from all

sources. In a typical year, the Development Office is

responsible for raising approximately 25% of the

overall operating budget. The Development team

recently completed an unconventional, 10-year quiet

campaign raising more than $425 million, and is

currently working toward completing the $64 million

Tanglewood Forever campaign. The BSO’s

development efforts include annual, capital,

endowment, and special project fundraising across

three brands — the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops,

and Tanglewood — appealing to a diverse and loyal group of patrons in the United States and throughout

the world.

Click here to view the Development Office Organizational Chart.

BSO Leadership

Mark Volpe

Eunice and Julian Cohen President and Chief Executive Officer

Mark Volpe, who celebrated his 21st anniversary as leader of the Boston

Symphony Orchestra at the start of the 2018 - 2019 season this fall, has

played a major role in reaffirming the BSO’s standing as one of the world’s

greatest orchestras. He has also maintained the Orchestra’s financial

equilibrium in a challenging economic environment, while overseeing its artistic

mission of musical excellence and bringing the BSO to the widest possible

audience through live performances, and traditional and new media, including

bso.org, one of the largest and most-visited orchestra web sites in the world,

and a wide variety of social media platforms. Mr. Volpe led the effort to appoint

Andris Nelsons, whose tenure as BSO Music Director began at the start of the 2014 - 2015 season, and

who continues to garner both critical and popular acclaim and admiration for his work with the Orchestra.

Mr. Nelsons heads a leadership roster that includes Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Laureate, Bernard Haitink,

Conductor Emeritus, and Thomas Adès, Artistic Partner, as well as Keith Lockhart, Boston Pops Conductor,

John Williams, Boston Pops Laureate Conductor, and Thomas Wilkins, BSO Youth and Family Concerts

Conductor.

During Mr. Volpe’s tenure at the BSO, the Orchestra’s endowment has grown from $149 million in 1997 to

$472 million in 2018, and its operating budget has grown from $49.9 million in 1997 to $107 million in 2018.

Mr. Volpe continues to oversee the largest buildings and grounds projects in the Orchestra’s history to

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restore and maintain the BSO’s physical plants at Symphony Hall in Boston and at Tanglewood in western

Massachusetts, where the Orchestra owns 526 acres of land and 80 structures, including the famous 5,000-

seat Koussevitzky Music Shed. Launching a new chapter in the illustrious festival’s 80-year history, Mr.

Volpe is spearheading the development of a new multi-use, multi-season four-building complex set to open

in the summer of 2019. (One of the buildings has been named in his honor.) The new complex is designed

to support the performance and rehearsal activities of the Tanglewood Music Center and be the focal point

of a brand new initiative, the Tanglewood Learning Institute, offering wide-ranging education and

enrichment programs designed to enhance the patron experience. Through his sixth successful BSO labor

negotiation in summer 2017, players and management reached a new three-year labor agreement through

August 2020.

In 2011, under Mr. Volpe’s leadership, the BSO launched a complete renovation of the organization’s

website, bso.org, which attracts approximately 31 million visitors annually and has generated over $233

million in revenue since its initial launch in 1996. He also spearheaded planning for Tanglewood’s 75th

anniversary celebration in 2012, during which a record 376,000 audience members visited Tanglewood; the

Boston Pops 125th anniversary season celebration in 2010, under the direction of Keith Lockhart; and the

2000 - 2001 season-long centennial celebration of Symphony Hall, widely regarded as one of the finest

concert halls in the world. In summer 2015, Mr.

Volpe was at the helm of the special events and

programming surrounding the 75th anniversary

celebration of the Tanglewood Music Center, the

BSO’s acclaimed summer music academy. Most

recently, Mr. Volpe oversaw the BSO’s efforts to

mark the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s

birth during the 2018 season at Tanglewood, with

performances that were part of an international

celebration of this iconic figure of the music world,

culminating in a gala performance recorded by

PBS/Great Performances for telecast on stations in

the United States and international markets. Also, under Mr. Volpe’s leadership, the BSO introduced a new

innovative community engagement program — "BSO In Residence" — in October 2017. The program

promises to be the start of a new paradigm for building creative collaborations between an orchestra and its

surrounding communities.

Mr. Volpe has also greatly enhanced the Orchestra’s media exposure in major outlets worldwide, through

such widely publicized performances as the Boston Symphony’s Millennium Concert in Paris and Boston

Pops appearances at major sporting events, including the Super Bowl, World Series, and NBA Finals. Also

on the international front, Mr. Volpe has significantly expanded the BSO’s touring activities under the

direction of Andris Nelsons, with highly acclaimed performances at Europe’s major music festivals in

September 2015, and annual national and international touring plans — including return visits to Europe

and trips to Asia, among other places — scheduled throughout Mr. Nelsons’ tenure with the Orchestra. Mr.

Volpe has also overseen the creation of a multidimensional partnership between the Boston Symphony

Orchestra and Leipzig’s Gewandhausorchester in connection with Mr. Nelsons’ appointment as that

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orchestra’s Gewandhauskapellmeister, in 2018. Absolutely unique in the world of orchestral music, the

BSO/GHO Alliance, which explores the many historic connections between these two world-famous

orchestras, inspires new cultural exchanges, and creates a wide spectrum of performance and educational

programs.

Under Mr. Volpe’s leadership, the BSO has launched its own recording label, BSO Classics, which, in 2010,

garnered the Orchestra’s first Grammy win in over 45 years for its recording of Daphnis et Chloé. Inspired

by the leadership of Andris Nelsons, Mr. Volpe has overseen a significant expansion of the Orchestra’s

recording activities on multiple digital and traditional recording platforms. The BSO and Mr. Nelsons have

partnered with Deutsche Grammophon in a collaboration that will result in a series of live recordings of

works by Shostakovich. The first album featured Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, the second featured the

composer’s Symphonies 5, 8, and 9, as well as incidental music from Hamlet, and the third album featured

Symphonies 4 and 11. The first three releases of the cycle have all won Grammys for Best Orchestral

Performance with a fourth Grammy won by the BSO’s engineering team for the Shostakovich Symphonies 4

and 11 release.

With the far-reaching impact of bso.org; the Orchestra’s multi-

faceted education programs involving more than 38,000 young

people each year; free community concerts throughout greater

Boston, including the legendary Boston Pops July 4 concert

on the Esplanade, reaching more than 500,000 people

annually; and discounted ticket programs, including the highly

successful College Card, $20 tickets for people age 40 and

under, and the Casual Fridays series, designed to make

concerts more affordable and accessible; the Boston

Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Mr. Volpe, is

now committed to outreach at a far greater scale than at any other time in the organization’s 137-year

history.

Prior to being named Managing Director of the BSO, Mr. Volpe served as Executive Director of the Detroit

Symphony Orchestra, Vice President and General Manager of the Minnesota Orchestra, and General

Manager of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He obtained his Juris Doctorate cum laude from the

University of Minnesota Law School in 1983. He received his Bachelor’s degree in music with a major in

clarinet performance from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in 1979, and did

graduate work at the Indiana University School of Music. In 2017, Mr. Volpe was elected to the 237th class

of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the first-ever chief executive of an orchestra to receive this

honor. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Rochester, Northeastern University, the New

England Conservatory of Music, and Westfield State University. He has been featured in speaking and/or

teaching engagements at Harvard Business School, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Boston University, the University of Michigan,

and the University of Minnesota Law School. Mr. Volpe and his wife Martha have two daughters, Francesca

and Madeline.

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BSO Artistic Leadership

Since 1881, when the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave its

inaugural concert, the BSO has been led by legendary

conductors, each of whom has put his unique imprint on the

Orchestra and its listeners in terms of musical traditions,

performance repertoire, educational programs, international

tours, and musical recordings.

In May 2013, a new chapter in the history of the Boston

Symphony Orchestra was initiated when the internationally

acclaimed young Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons was

announced as the BSO's next Music Director, a position he took up in the 2014 - 2015 season, following a

year as Music Director Designate. In 2016 - 2017, the British composer-conductor-pianist Thomas Adès

became the BSO's first-ever Artistic Partner, a position he will hold through the summer of 2019.

Andris Nelsons

Ray and Maria Stata Music Director, endowed in perpetuity

The 2019 – 2020 season is Andris Nelsons’ sixth as the Boston Symphony

Orchestra's Ray and Maria Stata Music Director. Named Musical America’s

2018 Artist of the Year, Mr. Nelsons leads 14 of the BSO’s 26 subscription

programs in 2018 – 2019, ranging from orchestral works by Haydn,

Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and Copland to concerto

collaborations with acclaimed soloists, as well as world and American premieres of pieces newly

commissioned by the BSO from Thomas Adès, Sebastian Currier, Andris Dzenītis, and Mark-Anthony

Turnage; the continuation of his complete Shostakovich symphony cycle with the Orchestra, and concert

performances of Puccini’s one-act opera Suor Angelica. In summer 2015, following his first season as

Music Director, Andris Nelsons’ contract with the BSO was extended through the 2021 – 2022 season. In

November 2017, he and the Orchestra toured Japan together for the first time. In February 2018, he

became Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, in which capacity he brings both

orchestras together for a unique multi-dimensional alliance. Immediately

following the 2018 Tanglewood season, Maestro Nelsons and the BSO made

their third European tour together, playing concerts in London, Hamburg, Berlin,

Leipzig, Vienna, Lucerne, Paris, and Amsterdam. Their first European tour,

following the 2015 Tanglewood season, took them to major European capitals

and the Lucerne, Salzburg, and Grafenegg festivals; the second, in May 2016,

took them to eight cities in Germany, Austria, and Luxembourg.

The fifteenth Music Director in the history of the Boston Symphony Orchestra,

Mr. Nelsons made his BSO debut at Carnegie Hall in March 2011, his

Tanglewood debut in July 2012, and his BSO subscription series debut in

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January 2013. His recordings with the BSO, all made live in concert at Symphony Hall, include the complete

Brahms symphonies on BSO Classics; Grammy-winning recordings on Deutsche Grammophon of

Shostakovich’s Symphonies Nos. 5, 8, 9, and 10, the initial releases in a complete Shostakovich symphony

cycle for that label; and a new two-disc set pairing Shostakovich's Symphonies Nos. 4 and 11, The Year

1905. Under an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, Andris Nelsons is also recording the

complete Bruckner symphonies with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the complete Beethoven

symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic.

The 2018 – 2019 season is Maestro Nelsons’ final season as Artist-in-Residence at the Konzerthaus

Dortmund and marks his first season as Artist-in-Residence at Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie. In addition, he

continues his regular collaborations with the Vienna Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic. Throughout his

career, he has also established regular collaborations with Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,

the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Orchestra, and has been a regular guest at

the Bayreuth Festival and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Born in Riga in 1978 into a family of musicians, Andris Nelsons began his career as a trumpeter in the

Latvian National Opera Orchestra before studying conducting. He was Music Director of the City of

Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 2008 - 2015, Principal Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche

Philharmonie in Herford, Germany from 2006 - 2009, and Music Director of the Latvian National Opera from

2003 - 2007.

Thomas Adès

Deborah and Philip Edmundson Artistic Partner

Born in London in 1971, Thomas Adès studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music

& Drama, and read music at King’s College, Cambridge. A prodigious composer,

conductor, and pianist, he was described by The New York Times as one of today’s

“most accomplished overall musicians.”

His first opera, Powder Her Face (1995) has been performed worldwide while his

second, The Tempest, was commissioned by London’s Royal Opera House and was

premiered under the baton of the composer to great critical acclaim in 2004. It was

revived in 2007 and has since had several performances elsewhere, including the Metropolitan Opera New

York where it was recorded for a Deutsche Grammophon DVD that subsequently won a Grammy Award.

His third opera, after Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel, premiered at the Salzburg Festival in July

2016.

His many musical advocates include Sir Simon Rattle who performed Asyla (1997) at his final concert with

the CBSO and his first as Music Director of the Berlin Philharmonic, and Tevot with the Berlin Philharmonic

in 2007. In 2011, the orchestral work Polaris was premiered by the New World Symphony and Michael

Tilson Thomas in Miami and has since been choreographed by Crystal Pite. His Totentanz for mezzo-

soprano, baritone, and large orchestra was premiered at the 2013 Proms by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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Mr. Adès has won numerous awards, including the 2015 Léonie Sonning Music Prize and the prestigious

Grawemeyer Award (2000), of which he is the youngest ever recipient. He was awarded a CBE in the 2018

Queen’s Birthday Honours. He was Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival from 1999 - 2008 and

coaches piano and chamber music annually at the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove.

For more information, visit thomasades.com.

Thomas Wilkins

Germeshausen Youth and Family Concerts Conductor

Thomas Wilkins is Music Director of the Omaha Symphony, a position he has

held since 2005. Additionally, he is Principal Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl

Orchestra, and holds the Germeshausen Family and Youth Concert

Conductor Chair with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This season, he

makes his BSO subscription series debut with a program of music by Duke

Ellington, Florence Price, Arthur Hailstork, and Roberto Sierra. In August

2017, Mr. Wilkins assumed the Henry A. Upper Chair of Orchestral

Conducting established by the late Barbara and David Jacobs as a part of

Indiana University’s Matching the Promise Campaign. Past positions have

included Resident Conductor of the Detroit Symphony and Florida Orchestra

(Tampa Bay), and Associate Conductor of the Richmond (VA) Symphony. He

also has served on the music faculties of North Park University (Chicago), the University of Tennessee in

Chattanooga, and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

Devoted to promoting a lifelong enthusiasm for music, Mr. Wilkins brings energy and commitment to

audiences of all ages. He is hailed as a master at communicating and connecting with audiences. Following

his highly successful first season with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Boston Globe named him

among the “Best People and Ideas of 2011.” In 2014, Mr. Wilkins received the prestigious “Outstanding

Artist” award at the Nebraska Governor’s Arts Awards for his significant contribution to music in the state.

And in March 2018, the Longy School of Music awarded him the Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement

Award for the Elevation of Music in Society.

During his conducting career, he has led orchestras throughout the United States, including the Philadelphia

Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra — both of which he returned to guest conduct in the 2016 – 2017

season. Additionally, he has conducted the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Rochester

Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Houston Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic,

Baltimore Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Utah Symphony, and the National Symphony in Washington,

D.C., as well at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago, to name a few.

His commitment to community has been demonstrated by his participation on several boards of directors,

including the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, the Charles Drew Health Center (Omaha), the Center

Against Spouse Abuse in Tampa Bay, and the Museum of Fine Arts as well as the Academy Preparatory

Center both in St. Petersburg, FL. Currently, he serves as Chairman of the Board for the Raymond James

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Charitable Endowment Fund and as National Ambassador for the nonprofit World Pediatric Project

headquartered in Richmond, VA, which provides children throughout Central America and the Caribbean

with critical surgical and diagnostic care.

A native of Norfolk, VA, Mr. Wilkins is a graduate of the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music and the New

England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He resides with his wife Sheri-Lee in Omaha. They are the proud

parents of twin daughters, Erica and Nicole.

Bernard Haitink

LaCroix Family Fund Conductor Emeritus, endowed in perpetuity

Bernard Haitink was born and trained in Amsterdam. His conducting career

began at the Netherlands Radio, where he took part in its intensive conductors’

courses, and where in 1957 he became the Chief Conductor of the Radio

Philharmonic Orchestra. He went on to become Chief Conductor of the

Concertgebouw Orchestra for 27 years. Mr. Haitink is now Patron of the Radio

Philharmonic and Honorary Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

He also held positions as Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, The

Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and as Principal Conductor of the London

Philharmonic Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, and the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra. He is an honorary member of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and in

2019 was made an honorary member of the Vienna Philharmonic.

This season, Mr. Haitink returned to the Chicago Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw, and the Bavarian

Radio Symphony Orchestras. The London Symphony Orchestra marked his birthday in March with a series

of concerts. He also conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestra Mozart, and the Berlin and

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, with whom he performed

his first public concert in 1954.

Mr. Haitink has received many awards and honors in recognition of his services to music, including Musical

America’s Musician of the Year and the Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been made a

Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, and an honorary Companion of Honour in the U.K., and

received honorary Doctorates from the University of Oxford and the Royal College of Music.

After the 2018 - 2019 season, during which he celebrates his 90th birthday and a 65-year conducting

career, Mr. Haitink will take a sabbatical.

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Keith Lockhart

Julian and Eunice Cohen Boston Pops Conductor, Endowed in Perpetuity

Having celebrated his twentieth anniversary as Boston Pops Conductor in

2015, Keith Lockhart is the second longest-tenured conductor of the Boston

Pops Orchestra since its founding in 1885. He took over as conductor in 1995,

following John Williams’ thirteen-year tenure from 1980 to 1993; Mr. Williams

succeeded the legendary Arthur Fiedler, who was at the helm of the Orchestra

for nearly fifty years. Mr. Lockhart has conducted more than 1,900 Boston Pops

concerts, most of which have taken place during the Orchestra’s spring and

holiday seasons in Boston’s historic Symphony Hall. He has also led annual

Boston Pops appearances at Tanglewood, 43 national tours to more than 150

cities in 38 states, and four international tours to Japan and Korea. The annual

July 4 Boston Pops concert draws an audience of over half a million people to the Charles River Esplanade

for the live performance, and millions more who view it on television or live webcast. In 2017, the Pops

organization presented its first self-produced Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular. The list of more than 250

guest artists with whom Mr. Lockhart has collaborated is a virtual “who’s who” of performers and pop culture

icons. He has led eight albums on the RCA Victor/BMG Classics label, including two — The Celtic Album

and The Latin Album — that earned Grammy nominations. Recent releases on Boston Pops Recordings

include A Boston Pops Christmas – Live from Symphony Hall and The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the

Kennedy Brothers. Released at the beginning of the 2017 Pops season, Lights, Camera…Music! Six

Decades of John Williams features Mr. Lockhart leading the Boston Pops in a collection of Williams’

compositions from the 1960s onward, some of which can be considered rarities. Mr. Lockhart’s increased

focus on musical theater has attracted leading Broadway artists to the Pops stage. He has worked closely

with hundreds of talented young musicians, including Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center, college

students from the Boston Conservatory and Berklee College of Music, and area high school students. He

introduced the PopSearch talent competition and the innovative JazzFest and EdgeFest series, featuring

prominent jazz and indie artists performing with the Pops. In addition to occupying the Julian and Eunice

Cohen Boston Pops Conductor chair, Mr. Lockhart currently serves as Principal Conductor of the BBC

Concert Orchestra in London, which he led in the June 2012 Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth

II, and as Artistic Director of the Brevard Music Center summer institute and festival in North Carolina. Prior

to his BBC appointment, he spent eleven years as Music Director of the Utah Symphony, which he led at

the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. He has appeared as a Guest Conductor with virtually

every major symphonic ensemble in North America, as well as several in Asia and Europe. Prior to coming

to Boston, he was the Associate Conductor of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops

orchestras, as well as Music Director of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Born in Poughkeepsie, NY, Mr.

Lockhart began his musical studies with piano lessons at the age of seven. He holds degrees from Furman

University and Carnegie Mellon University, and honorary doctorates from several American universities.

Visit keithlockhart.com for further information.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra engages more people in

the remarkable variety and wonder of classical music than

any other symphonic organization in the world, bringing

music into the lives of millions of people every year.

Unmatched in the size and scope of its activities, the BSO is

known for its diverse programs, passionate performances,

and tradition of innovation. The Boston Symphony Orchestra

has been at the forefront of artistic excellence for more than

135 years. At home, abroad, and through recordings and

broadcasts, the BSO continues to reinforce its reputation as

one of the world’s most accomplished and versatile ensembles, attracting acclaimed guest artists and

conductors.

Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It is widely regarded as one of the top

concert halls in the world and was the first auditorium designed in accordance with scientifically derived

acoustical principles.

Tanglewood Festival Chorus:

Originally formed under the joint sponsorship of Boston University and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the

all-volunteer Tanglewood Festival Chorus (TFC) was created in 1970 by Founding Conductor, the late John

Oliver. Though first established for performances at the BSO’s summer home, the Tanglewood Festival

Chorus was soon playing a major role in the BSO’s subscription season as well as BSO concerts at

Carnegie Hall; the ensemble now performs year-round with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops. It has

performed with the BSO on tour in Hong Kong and Japan, and on two European tours, also giving a

cappella concerts of its own on those two occasions. Learn more at: Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Boston Symphony Children’s Choir:

The Boston Symphony Children’s Choir (BSCC) gave its first official performance in summer 2018, joining

the BSO, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Maestro Andris Nelsons for a staged production of Puccini's

La Bohème at Tanglewood. After holding auditions for nearly 200 children in the fall of 2017, 65 singers

grades five through nine were selected by BSO Choral Director James Burton to take part in the BSO's

January 2018 performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 3. These concerts featured the BSO, Women of the

Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and the Mahler 3 Children's Choir under the baton of Maestro Andris Nelsons.

Following the success of that project, the Boston Symphony Children's Choir (BSCC) was officially

announced as a permanent ensemble of the BSO. Learn more at: Boston Symphony Children’s Choir

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Boston Symphony Chamber Players:

One of the world’s most distinguished chamber music ensembles sponsored by a major symphony

orchestra and made up of principal players from that orchestra, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players

include first-chair string and wind players from the

Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Founded in 1964 during Erich Leinsdorf’s tenure as BSO

Music Director, the Chamber Players can perform

virtually any work within the vast chamber music

literature, expanding their range of repertoire by calling

upon other BSO members or enlisting the services of

such distinguished artists as pianists Leif Ove Andsnes,

Emanuel Ax, and André Previn. Learn more at: Boston

Symphony Chamber Players

Boston Pops Orchestra:

Under the direction of Keith Lockhart, the Boston Pops Orchestra performs the best music of the past and

present, appealing to the widest possible audience with a broad spectrum of styles, from jazz to pop, indie

rock to big band, film music to the great American songbook, and Broadway to classical, making it the

perfect orchestra for people who don't know they like orchestras.

Tanglewood Learning Institute:

A new concept in cultural education that launches in summer 2019, the Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI)

will bring together musicians, artists, academics, and patrons, in person and through online technology and

distance learning, to engage in compelling programming that relates to and deepens the experience of

Tanglewood concerts and classical music. The program will provide a wide array of educational and

enrichment experiences that encourage a closer connection

between artists and audiences.

Tanglewood Music Center:

Serge Koussevitzky, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's

Music Director from 1924 - 1949, founded the Tanglewood

Music Center (TMC) with the intention of creating a premier

music academy where, with the resources of a great

symphony orchestra at their disposal, young musicians

would sharpen their skills under the tutelage of Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians and specially invited

artists. Today, TMC is the BSO's acclaimed academy for advanced musical training.

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The programs of the Tanglewood Learning Institute will take place in a major new four-building Center for

Music and Learning opening in 2019; these new buildings will also support the many performance and

rehearsal activities of the Tanglewood Music Center. Located on the Tanglewood grounds in close proximity

to Ozawa Hall, these new, highly sustainable, climate-controlled buildings will be the first Tanglewood

venues to be available for year-round use to accommodate events and concerts by the BSO and its cultural

partners, as well as others in the Berkshire community, throughout Tanglewood's off-season.

The opening of the new Center for Music and Learning represents a major new investment by the BSO in

the future of Tanglewood, expanding the scope and breadth of the festival through a heightened

commitment to the Tanglewood Music Center; enhancing the audience experience with enrichment and

education programs — both on-site and through distance learning — through the new Tanglewood Learning

Institute; and broadening Tanglewood's reputation as one of the world's premier festivals and summer home

of the BSO since 1937.

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