The Cleveland Orchestra has announced the appointment of HOLLY H. HUDAK as managing director of Cleveland Orchestra Miami, the orchestra’s annual program of concerts, community-engagement initiatives, and educational activities in that city co-presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (Fla.), and the Miami Music Association. The full-time post takes effect in January 2013; she will succeed BRUCE COPPOCK, who stepped down earlier this year for health reasons. Hudak is currently executive director and president of Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras. Prior to joining that organization in 2004 she served for six years as senior director of education, community relations, and diversity for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Early in her career Hudak led the annual fund at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and served as manager of the Albany (N.Y.) Symphony Orchestra. A 1987 graduate of the Orchestra Management Fellowship Program administered by the League of American Orchestras, she holds a degree in flute performance from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Posted November 21, 2012
