Musical America magazine has announced its Top 30 Professionals of the Year – the “Movers and Shapers” of classical music in the United States. The recipients are:
- Douglas Beck, Director, Artist Training Programs, Weill Music Institute, Carnegie Hall
- Bob Becker, Founding Member, Nexus; Composer/Arranger
- Sarah Burman, Director of Operations and Education, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra
- Annie Burridge, General Director & CEO, Austin Opera
- Carla Dirlikov Canales, Founder, CEO, & Artistic Director, The Canales Project
- Basil Considine, Founder and Artistic Director, Really Spicy Opera
- Paul Crewes, Artistic Director, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
- Will Crutchfield, General and Artistic Director, Teatro Nuovo
- Margo Drakos, Co-founder and CEO, ArtistYear
- Elena Dubinets, Vice President of Artistic Planning, Seattle Symphony
- Peggy Kriha Dye, Artistic Director, Opera Columbus
- Cori Ellison, Opera Dramaturg, Teacher
- Andrea D. Fessler, Founder and Executive Director, Premier Performances of Hong Kong
- Bernhard Fleischer, Managing Director, Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images
- Noreen Green, Artistic Director and Conductor, Los Angeles Jewish Symphony
- Sean Michael Gross, Executive VP and Chief Strategy Officer, 21C Media Group
- Neeta Helms, Founder/President, Classical Movements
- Jim Hirsch, Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Sinfonietta
- Cerise Jacobs, Co-Founder, Librettist, White Snake Projects
- Peter Jarvis, Salesman, Reuning & Son Violins; Faculty member, New England Conservatory Prep
- Alex Laing, Principal Clarinet, Phoenix Symphony; Founder, The Leading Tone
- Tania León, Composer, Conductor; Founding Artistic Director, Composers Now
- Mark Lowry, Co-Founder, Editor, and Chief Theater Critic, Theater Jones
- Quinton Morris, Assoc. Prof. of Violin, Director of Chamber and Instrumental Music, Seattle University; Director, Key to Change Studio
- Eugene Rogers, Associate Director of Choirs, Associate Professor of Conducting, University of Michigan
- Alex Ross, Music Critic, The New Yorker; Author, The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This
- Marna Seltzer, Director, Princeton University Concerts
- Yuval Sharon, Founder/Artistic Director, The Industry
- Joan Squires, President, Omaha Performing Arts
- Nancy Umanoff, Executive Director, Mark Morris Dance Group