New York City-based Orchestra of St. Luke’s has announced the appointment of CHARLES HAMLEN as vice president for artists and programs, effective in October 2012. He will succeed ELIZABETH OSTROW, vice president, artistic planning, who has worked at Orchestra of St. Luke’s for the past sixteen years. In his new post Hamlen will plan repertoire and artistic collaborations for OSL’s annual orchestra series at Carnegie Hall, its chamber-music series at The Morgan Library and the Brooklyn Museum, a summer residency at Caramoor International Music Festival, and a variety of other performance activities and special projects. Hamlen has worked as an artist manager for more than three decades, and had earlier spent eleven years as a high-school French teacher. In 1981 he joined with Edna Landau to found Hamlen/Landau Management, which became IMG Artists in 1984. In 1993 he left the firm to found Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising and distributing funds for AIDS-related services across the United States. He returned to IMG Artists in 2009 as worldwide chairman, and served in that post until June 2012. Hamlen is a 1965 graduate of Harvard College, where he majored in French language and literature.
Posted September 18, 2012
