THE FUTURE OF THE ORCHESTRA

A converstion with
Henry Fogel & Gary Ginstling

Are you planning a career in the orchestral world?
If so, this event is for you!

Wednesday, April 2 | 2:30-3:30pm | Sweeney Hall
An invitation to all JSoM students and faculty.

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Enjoy a conversation between Henry Fogel -- past president and CEO of the League of American Orchestras, president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra, and orchestra manager of the New York Philharmonic -- and Gary Ginstling -- CEO of the Indianapolis Symphony and past general manager of The Cleveland Orchestra.

Henry Fogel was appointed Dean of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University beginning in July, 2009, a school at which he has taught a course in orchestral studies since 2002.  In addition, he continues to provide a limited amount of consulting for musical organizations, working as a part of the Catherine French Group. He has been an artistic consultant to the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra in Brazil since 2008, and has consulted for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Edinburg Festival. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou, China.

Mr. Fogel has had a long and varied career in music administration. From 2003-2008 he was President and CEO of the League of American Orchestras. He retired from that position in 2008, but remained as a senior advisor through 2009. During his seven years with the League, he visited over 190 orchestras in America, and over his career he has visited and heard at least one orchestra in every one of the fifty states. Under his leadership the League attained fiscal stability, fully paying off a $1.2 million accumulated deficit and operating in the black for each year of his Presidency.

From 1985-2003, Mr. Fogel was President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, leading the organization through a period of enormous change. Under his leadership the Orchestra’s endowment increased from $19 million to over $160 million, and he oversaw the $125 million renovation of Orchestra Hall. In addition to maintaining its artistic supremacy, the Chicago Symphony during Mr. Fogel’s term dramatically strengthened its community engagement and educational programs. Fifteen of the eighteen years in which he served saw balanced budgets or surpluses, and during his time there attendance to classical subscription concerts increased by more than 20%.

From 1981-1985, Mr. Fogel was Executive Director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., and from 1978-1981 he was Orchestra Manager of the New York Philharmonic. From 1963-1978, he was Program Director and Vice-President of WONO, a full-time classical music commercial radio station in Syracuse, New York.

Mr. Fogel has served on non-profit boards virtually without interruption since 1967, when he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Boards on which he currently serves include the Executive Committee of the Avery Fisher Artist Program, the Institute for the Study of Black Music at Columbia College, the Chicago Opera Theater, and the WFMT Committee of the WTTW Board in Chicago, and the Chinese Fine Arts Society. He currently chairs the Board of the Cedille Chicago.

Mr. Fogel has also been a reviewer of recordings for Fanfare magazine since 1986, and for many years he wrote a column for South Korea’s leading classical music magazine Auditorium. He has contributed several entries to The Harvard Dictionary of Music. He has been a judge for conducting competitions in Europe, Asia, and the US, and he was the President of the Jury for the Music Competition of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.

He has received honorary doctorate degrees from Roosevelt University, Northwestern University, the Curtis Institute, and Columbia College in Chicago. In 1999 Mr. Fogel received a Cultural Leadership Citation from Yale University for service to the cultural life of the nation. In June, 2009, he received the highest honor in the symphony orchestra field, the League of American Orchestras’ Gold Baton Award. In 1997 he received the Top Chicagoan Award from Chicago Magazine, and in 1990 was named by Business Week magazine as one of the five best managers of cultural organizations in the United States. In 2003 he was honored by the Illinois Arts Alliance as an Illinois Arts Legend. He has also received the Dushkin Award for his service to music by the Music Institute in Chicago. In 2007 he was cited for “outstanding contributions to and accomplishments in the field of Music Education” by the National Association for Music Education. In 1986, the Chicago Chapter of the Brandeis University National Women’s Committee established a Collector’s File in his name in the Brandeis University Library.

Mr. Fogel has also served as a narrator with a number of orchestras and has recorded a speaking part in Paul Salerni and Dana Gioia’s opera Tony Caruso’s Last Broadcast on the Naxos label. He has also produced a number of internationally syndicated radio programs for Chicago’s Fine Arts Station WFMT, including currently Collectors’ Corner, which is derived from his extensive personal collection of over 20,000 classical recordings.

Mr. Fogel lives in River Forest, Illinois with his wife Frances. They have two children, Karl and Holly, and five grandchildren. In addition to music, he also has a passion for cooking Chinese food, and he studied over three years with Virginia Lee, who wrote the New York Times Chinese Cookbook.

GARY GINSTLING

Gary Ginstling joined the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra as its Chief Executive Officer in March 2013. After nearly a year in the role, Mr. Ginstling has formed a new senior management team; balanced the FY13 budget; raised nearly $10 million, the most ever raised by the ISO in a single fiscal year; reinvigorated the classical and pops subscription model which has resulted in the highest subscription revenue total in the past five seasons; overseen a record year of Marsh Symphony on the Prairie revenue in summer 2013; broadened the ISO’s reach in the community by increasing the number of free summer parks concerts around Indianapolis this past summer; and launched the first ever “Community Day” open house and free concert to be held on Sept. 21, 2013 at the Hilbert Circle Theatre.

Mr. Ginstling came to Indianapolis from The Cleveland Orchestra, where he served as general manager since September 2008. In Cleveland, his duties included overall executive responsibility for operations of Cleveland Orchestra activities, including artistic planning, concert production, touring, orchestra union contracts, education, electronic media, and the operation of the two Cleveland Orchestra-owned facilities:  Severance Hall and Blossom Music Center. Under Mr. Ginstling’s leadership, The Cleveland Orchestra launched several new initiatives aimed at attracting new audiences, including the return of staged opera to Severance Hall after forty years; an annual fully-staged ballet production at Blossom; a pops concert series; and several new concert formats.  He oversaw an extensive electronic media program that included the release of three DVDs and five CDs, including one recording which received a Grammy nomination in 2010. In 2010, he led the team which successfully completed a $10 million transaction with the federal government for 600 acres of land surrounding Blossom Music Center.

Prior to joining The Cleveland Orchestra, Mr. Ginstling served as Director of Communications and External Affairs for the San Francisco Symphony from 2006-2008. He was a member of the SFS senior management team and his responsibilities encompassed the oversight and direction of public relations, public affairs, publications, and the organization’s education/youth orchestra and community engagement activities. Mr. Ginstling oversaw the promotional efforts of the San Francisco Symphony’s Keeping Score project, which launched in November 2006 and has been viewed by nearly five million people around the world. Coverage of the project was secured in twelve of the top twenty major media markets.  He also created and planned the San Francisco Symphony’s first-ever family concert celebrating Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead celebration, in 2008.

Mr. Ginstling served as Executive Director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 2003-2006. At the Berkeley Symphony, Mr. Ginstling was responsible for a number of initiatives that helped enhance the orchestra’s reputation for creative programming and innovative projects. During his tenure, the orchestra gave six world premiere performances, received three ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming, and was a recipient of the inaugural “Bank of America Award for Excellence in Music Education,” a national award presented by the League of American Orchestras. These artistic achievements were accomplished in a fiscally responsible manner, as Mr. Ginstling oversaw three consecutive years of balanced budgets, the elimination of all outstanding debt, and a 30% increase in ticket sales.

Prior to joining the Berkeley Symphony, Gary Ginstling spent three years as a Marketing Manager for multimedia and emerging markets with Sun Microsystems. He also spent many years as a professional orchestral musician, performing regularly with orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony, and serving for twelve seasons as principal clarinetist with the New West Symphony in Ventura County, California.

Mr. Ginstling holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, a Master of Music from The Juilliard School, and a Master of Business Administration from The Anderson School at UCLA. He currently serves on the board of the Electronic Media Association, representing over seventy orchestras from around the country in negotiations with the American Federation of Musicians on symphony orchestra electronic media activity.  He has served on the board of the Association of California Symphony Orchestras, and recently served as a member of the grants review panel for the Maryland State Arts Council.  Mr. Ginstling lives in Carmel, Indiana with his wife Marta Lederer, and two children – Teddy (age 7), and Marlena (age 5).

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