Janet Chen, CEO of Ohio’s ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, at the Southern Theatre in Columbus, Ohio.
“A global opera premiere and new artistic partnerships are the latest in a string of successes pioneered by the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra’s longtime leader and newly named CEO,” Janet Chen, writes Peter Tonguette in Sunday’s (1/26) Columbus CEO (Columbus, OH). “She started off as a director of operations and education in 2003 and was named executive director three years later. In September … Chen received a new title: CEO…. The appointment is also an acknowledgment of Chen’s part in growing ProMusica, which has long been a stalwart in the Central Ohio performing-arts community but has seen its reach grow in recent years thanks to education programs, additional concerts outside of its usual venue of the Southern Theatre and a 2017 tour to Chicago…. Chen has managed an era of significant change at the organization, including the hiring of [Timothy] Russell’s successor, current music director David Danzmayr, and an increase in its budget…. Danzmayr points to Chen’s background as a working musician to explain her success in running the orchestra. ‘As great as she is in management, her first reflexes are that of a musician,’ Danzmayr says.”
