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Don't Forget - It Is Time to Renew Your ACSO Membership
Building a thriving community takes passion, energy, and commitment. Orchestral music and performance cannot be produced and sustained without a strong management base. ACSO exists to provide essential leadership and resources to you, the classical music producers and presenters, and to encourage and support your artistic, organizational, and fiscal development.
Membership in ACSO delivers:
- Networking and Inspiration - channels to communicate and collaborate with peers, professionals, and experts.
- Professional Development and Education - annual conference, convenings, consultants for your organization, and mentoring for you and your staff focusing on the shifts, trends, and movement in culture and community.
- Advocacy and Resources - a voice to your concerns and issues, and the resources to solve them.
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News from the California Arts Council
Call for Grant Review Panelists
Serving as a grant review panelist is an opportunity for artists and arts professionals to support the community by participating in cultural policy in action. Share your voice in shaping a creative California! Click here to learn more and apply online.
Professional Development and Consulting Grant Program
The CAC's Professional Development and Consulting (PDC) program assists arts organizations in building their capacity for success in two areas:
- Professional Development: Funding will support professional growth and leadership training opportunities for individual staff members, artists, arts administrators or arts educators employed by the applying organization.
- Consulting Services: Funding will support the hiring of consultants to work with staff to strengthen the operations of the applicant organization in areas related to programmatic, administrative, financial or technical capabilities.
The grant application deadline for projects taking place between February 1-June 30, 2017 is December 14th. More information can be found here.
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Up and Down the Scale
Nigel Armstrong makes his debut as concertmaster of the Santa Cruz Symphony on October 22.
Nigel is a soloist of international renown and prizewinner at several of the world's most prestigious competitions, including the Tchaikovsky, the Yehudi Menuhin, and the Corpus Christi International Violin Competitions. Armstrong has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Dusseldorf Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
Kevin Eberle has been appointed education director for the Las Vegas Philharmonic, responsible for managing the Philharmonic's music education and community outreach programs including its Youth Concert Series and the Cox Communications Young Artists' Concerto Competition.
Eberle also acts as director of operations. Prior to joining the Las Vegas Philharmonic, h
e spent four years teaching public school music in California and Arizona before transitioning to education coordinator for the Redlands Symphony. Eberle is also a freelance bassoonist performing in the past with several organizations including the Scottsdale Arts Orchestra and Redlands Symphony Orchestra. Eberle is currently authoring a paper on the double reed section of the Orchestra Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo during the time of the opening of the Monte Carlo Casino.
ACSO executive director Mitch Menchaca has been elected to the board of directors for DataArts, formerly known as the Cultural Data Project. DataArts was founded to bring the language and leverage of data to the business of culture. The Cultural Data Profile (CDP) is DataArts' flagship service, which thousands of cultural nonprofits use annually to report their financial and programmatic information. A majority of California arts grantmakers, including the California Arts Council require applicants to use the CDP tool.
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ACSO Out and About
The ACSO board of directors meets in Los Angeles to discuss the 2017 conference, member benefits, and to tour the new ACSO offices in downtown Los Angeles.
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ACSO executive director Mitch Menchaca with board members Maya Rath, Alan Mason, Nicola Reilly, Lacey Huszcza &
John Wineglass
Photo Credit: John Wineglass
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Thank You to Our Partners
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Association of California Symphony Orchestras
P.O. Box 71439 Los Angeles, CA 90071
(916) 484-6744
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