“Emil Kang, founding executive and artistic director of Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been appointed program director for arts and cultural heritage by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,” writes Susan Elliott in Friday’s (7/12) Musical America (subscription required). “Kang, 51, came to UNC in 2004 after serving as president of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. In launching Chapel Hill’s CPA, he is credited with creating one of the country’s most extensive, university-based arts presenters. According to Mellon, ‘Kang has driven change and growth through the arts across the University, programming thousands of artists, commissioning [50] new works, and championing new scholarship on the arts.’ He starts at Mellon on October 1…. In 2012, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Council on the Arts. In 2016, he was named special assistant to the chancellor for the arts and founded Arts Everywhere, ‘a major campus and community-wide initiative.’ … A onetime violinist, Kang holds a degree in economics from the University of Rochester and completed the Strategic perspectives in Non-profit Management program at Harvard Business School, as well as programs at the Center for Creative Leadership.” Kang is a 1996 alumnus of the League of American Orchestras’ Orchestra Management Fellowship Program.
Posted July 15, 2019
