{"id":18452,"date":"2014-04-24T12:27:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T16:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=18452"},"modified":"2014-04-24T12:34:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T16:34:18","slug":"update-tso-officially-confirms-appointment-of-jeff-melanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/04\/24\/update-tso-officially-confirms-appointment-of-jeff-melanson\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: TSO *officially* confirms appointment of Jeff Melanson"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18453\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Jeff-Melanson.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18453\" alt=\"Jeff Melanson, CEO of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Jeff-Melanson.jpeg\" width=\"480\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Jeff-Melanson.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Jeff-Melanson-253x300.jpeg 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Melanson, CEO of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the news being leaked yesterday, the Board of Directors of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra have officially declared the appointment Jeff Melanson as President and CEO of the TSO, beginning November 1, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Mr. Melanson said, \u201cIt is an honour to be asked to serve this wonderful organization in the role of President and CEO. I look forward to working with the musicians, staff, Peter and the board to take the Toronto Symphony Orchestra to an international leadership position. I am confident that the Toronto Symphony Orchestra is poised for great things and I am looking forward to a period of renewal, collaboration and creativity ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TSO Music Director Peter Oundjian expressed excitement over the prospect of working with Melanson, stating, \u201cJeff has an extremely charismatic personality and I find the idea of working together very energizing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TSO Chairman of the Board Christopher J. Hodgson, commented,\u00a0\u201cWith Jeff, we have a bold change-agent recognized in Canada, and internationally, as a top cultural executive with passion and creativity, and the ability to build a clear recognized brand.\u201d She also stated his fundraising\u00a0track record as well as bold\u00a0strategic vision made him an ideal choice for\u00a0forging the orchestra ahead.<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Vincent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the news being leaked yesterday, the Board of Directors of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra have officially declared the appointment Jeff Melanson as President and CEO of the TSO, beginning November 1, 2014. In a statement, Mr. Melanson said, \u201cIt is an honour to be asked to serve this wonderful organization in the role of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,39,60,63],"tags":[1721,3360],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/Jeff-Melanson.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-4NC","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18452"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18458,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452\/revisions\/18458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18452"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}