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Austin Symphony Orchestra hires new executive director
After suddenly losing its executive director earlier this year under a cloud of confusion, the Austin Symphony Orchestra has announced that it is hiring one of its own for the top management position.
Anthony Corroa, the orchestra’s operations manager since 2000 and the recent interim executive director, has been named the new executive director.
Orchestra board president Joe R. Long said in the announcement Thursday that Corroa was selected after a nationwide search.
Corroa’s appointment comes after the orchestra went through a tumultuous management shuffle earlier this fall.
Galen Wixson, the organization’s previous executive director, disappeared from the organization’s Web site Aug. 31. At the time, ASO board leaders offered no explanation for Wixson’s disappearance though it was reported that he had been fired.
On Sept. 1, more than two dozen orchestra musicians sent a letter to the board’s executive committee protesting Wixson’s sudden and unexplained absence.
Then on Sept. 9, Long finally issued a statement saying Wixson has resigned as executive director over creative differences.
Wixson never responded to requests for comment.
Wixson was hired in mid-March after a national search. He left the position of executive director of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra to take the Austin job. Previously, Wixson had served as executive director for the Symphony of Southeast Texas, the Manhattan Center for the Arts and the American String Teachers Association.
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By HornsOverIthaca
December 10, 2009 10:17 PM | Link to this
Anthony Corroa is a great choice. Good for him!
By Mig-9
December 10, 2009 5:02 PM | Link to this
Hard-learned rule of arts organizations - never lets artists actually run the organization.