Associate Director, Alternative Programming

Associate Director, Alternative Programming Artistic Operations Artistic Planning Work Status:

Full TimeFLSA Status:

Exempt Location of Job:

Davies Symphony Hall San Francisco, CASalary:

Pay Grade F$
- Schedule:

Hybrid Regular

Hours:

9 am-5 pm; regular evenings and weekends

Reports To:

Senior Director, Artistic Planning Supervisory :

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THE ORGANIZATION The San Francisco Symphony is among the most adventurous and innovative arts institutions in the United States, celebrated for its artistic excellence, creative performance concepts, award-winning recordings, and standard-setting education and community engagement programs. Since it was established in 1911, the Symphony has grown in acclaim under a succession of distinguished music directors:
Henry Hadley, Alfred Hertz, Basil Cameron, Issay Dobrowen, Pierre Monteux, Enrique Jordá, Josef Krips, Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart, Herbert Blomstedt, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

The San Francisco Symphony presents more than 200 concerts and presentations annually for an audience of nearly 350,000 in its home of Davies Symphony Hall and around the Bay Area. A cornerstone of its mission, the San Francisco Symphony provides some of the most extensive education and community programs offered by any American orchestra. The Symphony’s free music education experiences engage students in grades 1–12 throughout the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), serving more than 25,000 students  2001, the SF Symphony became the first American orchestra to launch its own in-house record label SFS Media.

Recorded live in concert and engineered at Davies Symphony Hall, SFS Media recordings showcase music by contemporary composers as well as core classical masterworks. San Francisco Symphony radio broadcasts, the first in the nation to feature symphonic music when they began in 1926, today carry the Orchestra’s concerts across the country. In 2004, the SF Symphony launched the groundbreaking multimedia Keeping Score series on PBS-TV and the web;

the series was made available for unlimited free streaming on the Symphony’s You Tube channel in 2020. In 2014, the San Francisco Symphony inaugurated Sound Box, an experimental and eclectic live music series, which takes place in an alternative performance space located backstage at Davies Symphony Hall. In 2023, the San Francisco Symphony partnered with Apple for the launch of a new classical music streaming app, Apple Music Classical, and has since released 15 spatial audio recordings of live concert performances through the app.

For its adventurous programming, the Symphony has been honored 19 times by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and the Symphony’s recordings have garnered France’s Grand Prix du Disque and Britain’s Gramophone Award, as well as 17 Grammy Awards.

JOB SUMMARY The Associate Director, Alternative Programming is a key member of the Artistic Planning team developing the San Francisco Symphony’s alternative programming portfolio, with a focus on creating exciting and memorable concert experiences, uniting audiences and artists together around our art form, and leveraging the flexibility and collaborative nature of orchestral music to create engaging experiences that resonate with our community.

The Associate Director, Alternative Programming has primary responsibility for non-classical programming including Summer, Holiday, Film, select special events, and any added pops, presentations, and other alternative programming.

The Associate Director, Alternative Programming is also responsible for exploring ways to expand the kinds of content offered by the Symphony, seeking to generate revenue through presentations, co-presentations, and alternative programs that bring new…