“The La Jolla (CA) Music Society was able to lure Ted DeDee out of retirement to become its next president and CEO,” writes Nicholas Beard in Monday’s (3/18) Musical America (subscription required). “He starts April 1, just four days before the opening of $82 million Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, LJMS’s new home. DeDee succeeds Kristin Lancino, who resigned suddenly in January of 2018, after two years in the job. Following a seven-month search, Susan Danis, general director and CEO of the Florida Grand Opera, was announced as Lancino’s successor, only to withdraw … several months later…. DeDee certainly has the qualifications to oversee the new facility…. La Jolla reports that its new man has run seven performing arts centers, including the $205 million Overture Center [in Madison, Wisconsin], from 2012-2018, Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Theatre in Rochester, NY, the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, and the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, both in Nashville. DeDee has signed a three-year contract with La Jolla.”
Posted March 21, 2019
