General Managers

Seminars and Programs

Reports and Research

Meetings

  • Mid-Winter Managers Weekend

    January 30-31, 2011
    Intercontinental The Barclay New York
    212 755 5900

    Guest Room Rates: $159/night + 14.75% state and local tax

    (For highlights of this past year's see Weekend below)

     

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Join a discussion group

  • Join a discussion

    Stay connected via e-mail discussion groups, courtesy of the League of American Orchestras. The groups serve as a platform to pose questions, seek advice, and broadcast information to a select group of people.

Resources

Recommended Reading

  • Orchestra Manager's Survival Guide

    This booklet is the orchestra manager's guide to personal professionalism and covers the essentials of managing your career in a readable, no-nonsense style. The Style Guide focuses on the practical aspects of managing your career, including how to pick the right orchestra, how to manage expectations, how to manage time and resources, how to manage a crisis, and how to find your next job. This booklet is full of practical advice on building relationships that are critical to your success. Also included are an Organizational Resource List for networking and a comprehensive bibliography. By Matthew Sigman.

    pdf Download Orchestra Manager's Survival Guide 179.55 Kb

  • Working with the Music Director

    This revised and expanded version of Selecting a Music Director provides updated information on all aspects of selecting and working with the music director. Material addresses strategies that enable the music director, board, and management to build healthy working relationships and ways to include the music director in the orchestra's overall evaluation process.

    Download pdf Working With The Music Director 10.51 Mb