“Agnieszka Rakhmatullaev has been named the new executive director of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, a role she will fill beginning in September,” writes Brandy McDonnell in Monday’s (7/8) Oklahoman. “Rakhmatullaev succeeds Eddie Walker, who, as previously reported, stepped down in April to become executive director at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center…. Most recently [she served] as executive director at the South Bend Symphony Orchestra in Indiana, [where] she guided the organization through an international music director search, shored up its finances and expanded its music programming and educational outreach. She previously served in development at the Houston Symphony and was a League of American Orchestras ‘Orchestra Management Fellow,’ where she served multiple roles at the Aspen (Colorado) Music Festival, San Francisco Symphony and North Carolina Symphony. She also served for four years as artistic planning and operations manager for Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago.… She received undergraduate and graduate degrees in violin performance from University of Houston and a second masters in orchestral studies from Roosevelt University in Illinois…. Agnieszka will work alongside the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Board of Directors, new Music Director Alexander Mickelthwate … and the musicians and staff.”
Posted July 9, 2019
