By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San
Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily News
Terry Knowles has been promoted to president and chief
executive officer of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, effectively immediately.
Now in her 11th season as the Chorale’s executive director, Knowles
replaces Marc Foster who has been both CEO and LAMC’s board chairman (he
remains in the latter post). Grant Gershon remains the Chorale’s music
director.
She now holds a similar position to that of Deborah Borda at
the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Stephen Roundtree at Los Angeles Opera
(although Roundtree is not LAO president). Like the Master Chorale, both those
organizations are resident companies at the Music Center.
During her tenure with the Master Chorale, Knowles has
overseen a 75% increase in the group’s operating budget (to $3.7 million) and
helped forge a new recording contract with Decca Recording Group.
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