Two maestros now earn $3 million from US orchestras

Drew McManus has put together the pay scale for music directors, taken from 2015/16 orchestra accounts. It’s a grim read.

Jaap Van Zweden continued to make an absolute killing in Dallas – can New York even afford him?

Riccardo Muti crossed the $3 million threshold in Chicago and MTT is doing well in SanFran with his long-service bonuses.

Here’s the score that really matters: what maestros make –

1 Dallas Symphony: $3,642,804
2 Chicago Symphony: $3,046,137
3 San Francisco Symphony: $2,600,275
4 Los Angeles Philharmonic: $1,983,314
5 New York Philharmonic: $1,793,837
6 Cleveland Orchestra: $1,406,143
7 Philadelphia Orchestra: $1,339,333
8 Boston Symphony: $1,301,000
9 Saint Louis Symphony: $1,041,851
10 Pittsburgh Symphony: $918,550

Read on here.

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