Constituency Meetings

Throughout the Conference, you’ll gather together for stimulating meetings with those who best understand the challenges of your position: your peers. Whether you’re an executive director, board member, volunteer, staff member, or musician at a member orchestra or a member of our student constituency, there is learning designed specifically for you.

Select your constituency below to view your group’s meetings.

If you are unsure about your constituency group before Conference, please contact Member Services at member@americanorchestras.org. While in Salt Lake City, please go to the Registration Area with any questions.

Click here for a list of League staff constituent liaisons.

Any times listed are Mountain Time. Agendas will be posted in early spring and are subject to change; check this page for the latest version.

Artistic Constituencies

Artistic Administrators

Gather with your artistic administrator peers to discuss your orchestra’s artistic leadership, including gender equality, staffing, repertoire, and venues.

Composers

Topics to be announced soon!

Conductors

Gather with your conductor peers to dialog with Marin Alsop, visit Maurice Abravanel’s studio, and share innovative programming ideas.

Musicians

Topics to be announced soon!

Staff and Volunteer Constituencies

Development

Gather with your development peers for roundtable discussions and presentations. More information to be announced soon!

Education/Community Engagement

Gather with Education and community engagement professionals in a mix of panel presentations and open discussions on topics addressing both sides of the portfolio. Topics are in development but typically include strengthening partnerships, assessing program effectiveness, improving internal collaborations, and more.

Please also join us for a dedicated Pre-Conference Half Day Meeting specifically for EdCE professionals, hearing from peers and local guests, designed in part and led by the host orchestra’s EdCE team. More specifics for this valuable time of networking and learning will become available soon.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion

Topics to be announced soon!

Finance and Human Resources

Gather with your finance colleagues for roundtable discussions and facilitated learning sessions. We'll address broad financial strategies and specific organizational needs, ensuring you leave with actionable ideas to strengthen your financial leadership.

General Managers & Operations

The General Managers and Operations meetings will include some combination of the following topics: advocacy updates, IMA and EMA updates, OMLA updates, bridging intergenerational communication and collaboration with the League’s student constituency, health and wellness for musicians, a discussion on the AFM’s guidance language as it relates to tenure and auditions, communications skills and de-escalation techniques, and possible tours of Abravanel Hall and the USUO’s fantastic opera production studio. This will be a Conference you won’t want to miss!

Marketing, Groups 1-2

Gather with your marketing peers from Group 1-2 orchestras for roundtable discussions and presentations on best practices and top-of-mind topics. More information to be announced soon!

Marketing, Groups 3-8

Gather with your marketing peers from Group 3-8 and youth orchestras for roundtable discussions and presentations on best practices and top-of-mind topics. More information to be announced soon!

Orchestra Board Members

Gather with your orchestra board member peers to discuss the ongoing process of music director searches, creating a positive organizational culture, and serving as a brand ambassador.

Public Relations

Gather with your colleagues to reconnect and discuss a variety of topics of interest to the PR constituency.

Volunteers

Connect with fellow volunteers in orchestras from across the country to share best practices, network and discover new ideas to take back to your volunteer league. Hear how orchestras are utilizing volunteers in their organizations, learn about award-winning projects and how to scale them to your orchestra, and much more.

Youth Orchestra Division

In addition to opportunities to network with your YOD peers, topics will include student commitment/attendance, navigating changing landscapes, strategic alliances/partnerships, and our new favorite structure: hot topics (crowd sourcing solutions to pressing issues of those in attendance).

Executive Directors

Executive Directors, Group 1

Join your Group 1 executive director peers for fellowship and constituency conversations about the urgent strategic and operational issues facing our field.

Executive Directors, Group 2

Join your Group 2 chief executive peers for conversations and learning sessions focused on the latest operational issues, innovations, and opportunities to advance your leadership and your orchestra.

Executive Directors, Groups 3-4

Topics to be announced soon!

Executive Directors, Groups 5-6

Join your Group 5 and 6 executive director peers to share inspiration and learn from each other’s experiences. Discussion will cover both strategic and operational topics, including activating a fundraising board, strategizing for financial sustainability, and building an inclusive organizational culture.

Executive Directors, Groups 7-8

Join your Group 7-8 executive directors to exchange ideas and sharpen skills when it comes to topics such as fundraising, marketing, board engagement, and more. Constituency input will be sought as the agenda is finalized in the coming months!

Students

In addition to networking with your peers and orchestra professionals, student topics may include intergenerational workplace communication and collaboration with the League’s General Managers and Operations constituency, maintaining mental and physical health in music, how to break into decision making spaces and offer insights and ideas that challenge traditional ways, and the future of community engagement.

Banner: Attendees at Conference 2023. Credit: Jason Cohn.