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Dallas Symphony Names Its First Female President And CEO

Courtesy of Michael Blanchard
Kim Noltemy, new CEO of the DSO.

The Dallas Symphony filled one of its major leadership gaps Friday morning.

Kim Noltemy, the chief operating and communications officer for the Boston Symphony since 2015, will become the DSO’s new CEO and president — and the first woman to hold both positions.

Both of the orchestra’s current leaders will be gone by the end of the current season. Conductor Jaap van Zweden will be starting at the New York Philharmonic as its “music director designate”. And CEO Jonathan Martin left in June to take over the Cincinnati Symphony in September.

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Jerome Weeks is the Art&Seek producer-reporter for KERA. A professional critic for more than two decades, he was the book columnist for The Dallas Morning News for ten years and the paper’s theater critic for ten years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines.