In Tuesday’s (6/7) Duluth News Tribune (Minnesota), Christa Lawler reports, “The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra has hired an executive director who has a strong background in fundraising and is a violinist who performs with orchestras. Rebecca Petersen was hired last week by the DSSO and will start in early July, with the DSSO’s Fourth Fest concert as her first major event. Petersen has been the executive director of A Center for the Arts for the past 18 years. The year-round arts organization in Fergus Falls, Minn., hosts music, literary, visual arts and film events and festivals and is based out of an old theater. Buzz Palmer, interim executive director and a former member of the DSSO’s board of directors, credited Petersen’s grant writing and organizational skills and said that as a musician Petersen understands artists. … Petersen said she is big on collaboration and wants to work with other local art organizations and businesses. She also would like to take the DSSO show on the road. … Petersen went to the University of Minnesota Duluth for two years before transferring to the University of Vermont in Burlington and getting a bachelor of arts degree in music. She plays violin with the Fargo Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, the Fargo Moorhead Opera and in a string trio.”
Posted June 7, 2011
