The Santa Rosa Symphony will host the Association of California Symphony Orchestras’ 46th Annual Conference, to be held from July 31 to August 2 in Rohnert Park, California. The Conference—using the wine metaphor of “Balance” as the theme of its four days of workshops, presentations, and performances—will open with a free community concert at Green Music Center, featuring the Mariachi Sol de México de Jose Hernandez and the Santa Rosa Symphony, led by conductor Michael Berkowitz. Conference speakers will include Michael Kaiser, founder of the De Vos Institute of Arts Management at the University of Maryland and former president of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; Robert Rex, winemaker, Deerfield Winery; Jeremy Hunter, PhD., assistant professor at the Peter F. Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University; and Laura Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. The National Youth Orchestra of the USA will perform a concert on August 2 at Weill Hall on August 2. More information about the ACSO Conference is available here.
Posted June 24, 2014
