“Sonoma State University reached into the heartland Thursday for the new executive director of its Green Music Center, tapping the University of Iowa’s performing arts center leader to integrate the premier music venue into the academic life of the Rohnert Park campus and cultural needs of the community,” writes Diane Peterson in Thursday’s (4/27) Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA). “Jacob Yarrow, 45, succeeds both Zarin Mehta, 78, the co-executive director of the Green Music Center since 2013, and Stan Nosek, the university’s interim vice president for administration and finance, who served as the GMC’s co- executive director since last summer. For the past eight years, Yarrow has served as programming director for Hancher Auditorium, the main performing arts center at the University of Iowa.… [Sonoma State University President Judy] Sakaki has worked to more fully integrate the Green Music Center into everyday campus life and into the community that helped finance the center’s construction. Mehta, former president and executive director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, announced his retirement last fall. He has been commuting to the job from his home in Chicago…. Yarrow will begin work at the end of June.”
Posted May 2, 2017
