Photo Credit: Melissa Taylor
Alan Mason
Board Chair, League of American Orchestras
Speaking at Closing Luncheon and Annual Meeting
Currently serving as a board member of the Monterey Symphony, Alan Mason is the Prior President of the Board of the Association of California Symphony Orchestras and a prior board member of the Oakland Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. He recently retired from his role as Managing Director at BlackRock. Mason earned a BA degree in music from Baylor University in 1983, summa cum laude; an MA degree in musicology from the University of Louisville in 1989, with honors; and an MA degree in ethnomusicology from University of California Berkeley in 1991. Mason played oboe and English horn with the Waco Symphony Orchestra and Louisville Symphony. Mason lives in Pacific Grove, California with his husband Timothy Rodrigues.