Musical America, the publisher of Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts and the news website MusicalAmerica.com, has released the 2018 edition of The Musical America Top 30 Professionals of the Year profiling “innovators, independent thinkers, and entrepreneurs” in the field. Among the 30 are Terrance McKnight, evening host, WQXR Radio; Erik Rönmark, vice president and general manager, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and co-founder and executive director, New Music Detroit; Joseph Conyers, assistant principal bass, Philadelphia Orchestra, and executive director, Project 440; Aiden Kim Feltkamp, director of Emerging Composers and Diversity, American Composers Orchestra; Clyde Scott, director of Video Production, resident projection designer, New World Symphony; Trey Devey, president, Interlochen Center for the Arts; Alan Valentine, president and CEO, Nashville Symphony; Abigayl Venman, senior director of Arts Leadership, Sphinx Organization; Lacey Huszcza, executive director, Las Vegas Philharmonic, and former associate executive director, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Steve Shaiman, senior vice president, Concert Artists Guild; and composer Gabriela Lena Frank, Founder, Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music. Read the full report here.

Posted December 7, 2018