LA Phil loses an exec
mainThe upheavals continue.
Phillippa Cole, Associate Director of Artistic Planning since 2018 is heading to San Francisco where she will be SF Symphony’s Director of Artistic Planning.
Cole, who was previously Michael Tilson Thomas’s agent at Askonas Holt, will accompany the last two years of his music directorship.
The last two years? Um, this is MTT’s final season with the SFS.
She’s moving from being #2 in LA to #1 in San Francisco. Hardly an “upheaval,” certainly nothing to do with Simon Woods resigning, I would imagine.
What about Matt Spivey at the Symphony? It’s unclear whether she would report to him.
She’s still No. 2 in SF, working for Matt Spivey.
Mr. Spivey has the title of “Director.” There can’t be two of them, can there?
She is as fine as they get. It should be embarrassing to the LA Phil that they couldn’t hold on to her.
I hope the job pays enough for her to find an apartment in San Francisco.
Off-topic: Norman, could you have a look at the website on a mobile phone? On my iPhone 7 many photos on the start page seem cropped in a false way. Looks really awkward especially when it comes to people’s portraits with their eyes cut off… I used to think this is intentional, but no, probably it’s not.