Hiring an Artistic Director: A New Era Begins at a Symphonic Chorus

When hiring a new artistic director, putting a good process in place is the best way to set your chorus up for a good result. This panel discussion uses the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus’s recent hiring of the third chorus director in the group’s 40-year history as a case study. Learn about the research done at the outset, how the search committee was formed, the application process, and how chorus members played an important role in the hiring decision. You’ll walk away with tools to calendar the search process, evaluate potential candidates, survey singers, and more.