The veteran arts leader comes to Washington from leading the Los Angeles Master Chorale, succeeding Gary Ginstling
Over her seven-year tenure with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and against the odds posed by the pandemic, Davidson led an institutional rebrand and doubled the chorale’s budget to $8 million. She also implemented ambitious touring initiatives, touring the chorale to 18 cities in nine countries before the pandemic.
Davidson said she likes to “push organizations to think about their biggest ideas” and sees similar opportunities for growth at the NSO, which has an operating budget of $37.7 million. “I feel like the NSO has never quite had the respect and the recognition as some of the other major orchestras in the country,” she said, “and the artistry that I’ve seen is there.
to commit more resources to new productions. Even a recent Los Angeles Master Chorale presentation of Heinrich Schütz’s“I’m wondering if there might be a start to a generational shift,” she said. “In every crisis there’s an opportunity. You just have to kind of find it. And I’m wondering if this might be one of those opportunities.”
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