US orchestra chief vanishes overnight
mainThe Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra is hustling around for an interim president after its CEO Peter Gistelinck went missing from his post.
All the orch will say is that Gistelinck is no longer there. No reason has been given for his hurried departure.
Gistelinck, a Belgian, had been there less than five years. Before Kalamazoo, he put in eight years as head of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia.
He vanished overnight? Went missing?
OMG WAS HE KIDNAPED? MURDERED? ABDUCTED BY ALIENS????
Maybe they just misplaced him?
No, he probably quit or was fired. Reason not (yet) made public because it probably had to do with some impropriety or bad chemistry.
Why the sensational headline? This sort of thing is not …. sensational.
“Why the sensational headline?” You must be new here.
It’s sensational for the members of the orchestra whose lives he made miserable.
Are you able to discuss this in more detail?
Under his regime there have been multiple grievances filed, a couple of unfair labor practices filed, and a very difficult contract negotiation, part of which led to one of the unfair labor practices being filed. Can’t say anymore than that, but most likely there is more. The “Vice President of Operations” is also no longer employed by the KSO.
How is their new music director working out?
The new maestro is excellent!
Hmmmm
Let me see now….put a sociopath together in the same work environment as a non-sociopath…how long do you think the non-sociopath will tolerate the abuse or walk off the job…OR get blamed for all the problems created by the sociopath? Ah, orchestra management….
Given his propensities, I would not be surprised to learn that he’s no longer in the country.
He now works at the Avon Theatre in Stamford, CT, where he tried to shove an obnoxious binding arbitration clause on the employees, and kept lying about its benefits, even after it was defeated. As to his getting fired from the orchestra, his quickly withdrawing his laptop from scrutiny at a meeting 2 weeks back because the screen was plastered with pix of young girls in bikinis says it all.