{"id":35689,"date":"2016-03-30T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T15:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=35689"},"modified":"2016-03-31T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:18:22","slug":"breaking-jeff-melanson-resigns-from-toronto-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2016\/03\/30\/breaking-jeff-melanson-resigns-from-toronto-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING | Toronto Symphony Orchestra President and CEO Jeff Melanson Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27217\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27217\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/jeff_melanson-1024x8311.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Melanson, CEO of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra  \u2013 2015 (Photo: Rick Madonik)\" width=\"770\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/jeff_melanson-1024x8311.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/jeff_melanson-1024x8311-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Melanson, CEO of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra \u2013 2015 (Photo: Rick Madonik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The TSO has confirmed that Jeff Melanson has resigned from his position as President &amp; CEO of the TSO, effective March 29, 2016. According to the TSO, The Board of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Melanson mutually decided that it was in the best interests of both parties to part ways.<\/p>\n<p>TSO Board member, Sonia Baxendale has agreed to accept the position of Interim CEO until a suitable replacement is found. The board has formed an executive search committee to fill the position as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Baxendale is a senior member of the board, and will step aside from her position to concentrate on her new leadership role.<\/p>\n<p>It has not yet clear if the resignation is directly related to the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/try-it-now\/?articleId=29204852\" target=\"_blank\">Globe and Mail <\/a>report critical of Melanson&#8217;s dealings with ex-wife Eleanor McCain and allegations of misconduct during his time at the Banff Centre.<\/p>\n<p>We are waiting to receive more details on the story and will have a statement from Richard Phillips, Chair of the Board of Directors shortly.<\/p>\n<p>[For our follow-up on the story, including\u00a0interviews and exclusive details, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicaltoronto.org\/2016\/03\/31\/tso-shake-up-more-revealed-about-jeff-melansons-departure\/\" target=\"_blank\">TSO SHAKE-UP | More Revealed About Jeff Melanson&#8217;s &#8220;Departure&#8221; From TSO<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Want more updates on Toronto-centric classical music news and review\u00a0before anyone else finds out? 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According to the TSO, The Board of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Melanson mutually decided that it was in the best interests of both parties to part ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/jeff_melanson-1024x8311.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-9hD","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35689"}],"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=35689"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35725,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35689\/revisions\/35725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35689"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=35689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}