“The executive director of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra has announced his plans to retire,” writes Sean Adams in Wednesday’s (8/7) Patriot-News (Harrisburg, PA). “Jeff Woodruff has been executive director of the orchestra for 16 years… He will be stepping down as of June 30, 2020, with plans to hand over the reins to an as-yet-unnamed successor. Woodruff said that his time with HSO ‘has been the highlight of my professional career’ in a press release. He also mentioned the company’s music director Stuart Malina as ‘a model for music directors everywhere,’ thanking Malina as well as the many board and staff members he worked with over the years. ‘I’m very much looking forward to my final season, one that will be a glorious season-long celebration of three anniversaries: the Harrisburg Symphony’s 90th season, Stuart Malina’s 20th season as Music Director, and the Symphony Society’s 30th season as the orchestra’s volunteer fundraising auxiliary,’ Woodruff wrote.”
Posted August 8, 2019
