The Business of Orchestras

Tina Ward has been a clarinetist in the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra since 1970. Tina has served on various orchestra committees, including the SLSO Musicians Council, and has been chairperson of the Artistic Advisory, Community Partnership Program, Media and Travel Committees. Tina has also been the SLSO’s ICSOM delegate and a member of the Community Partnership Advisory Board. In 1999 she was an American Symphony Orchestra League (ASOL) Orchestra Management Fellow and completed assignments with the Kansas City Symphony and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, she has researched artistic leadership models in orchestras around the world and has co-authored articles in Harmony and Symphony. Currently, Tina is a member of the Board of Directors of the ASOL. In addition, she is an active chamber music performer and clarinet teacher.

Tina Ward has been a clarinetist in the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra since 1970. Tina has served on various orchestra committees, including the SLSO Musicians Council, and has been chairperson of the Artistic Advisory, Community Partnership Program, Media and Travel Committees. Tina has also been the SLSO’s ICSOM delegate and a member of the Community Partnership Advisory Board. In 1999 she was an American Symphony Orchestra League (ASOL) Orchestra Management Fellow and completed assignments with the Kansas City Symphony and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, she has researched artistic leadership models in orchestras around the world and has co-authored articles in Harmony and Symphony. Currently, Tina is a member of the Board of Directors of the ASOL. In addition, she is an active chamber music performer and clarinet teacher.

Tina Ward has been a clarinetist in the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra since 1970. Tina has served on various orchestra committees, including the SLSO Musicians Council, and has been chairperson of the Artistic Advisory, Community Partnership Program, Media and Travel Committees. Tina has also been the SLSO’s ICSOM delegate and a member of the Community Partnership Advisory Board. In 1999 she was an American Symphony Orchestra League (ASOL) Orchestra Management Fellow and completed assignments with the Kansas City Symphony and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, she has researched artistic leadership models in orchestras around the world and has co-authored articles in Harmony and Symphony. Currently, Tina is a member of the Board of Directors of the ASOL. In addition, she is an active chamber music performer and clarinet teacher.

Carla Johnson was appointed President and Executive Director of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in March, 2004. She spearheaded the strategic planning process, which resulted in the adoption of a five-year Strategic Plan in March 2005, and balanced the operating budget for the third consecutive year. Ms. Johnson oversaw the construction of the 2005-2006 season, which added three new series in the new Ferguson Center for the Arts at Christopher Newport University in Newport News; the new series helped push sales to an institutional record of over a million dollars in subscription sales. Having worked for over nine years with the Saint Louis Symphony Community Partnership Program, it is her particular goal to bring community engagement to Hampton Roads, and to that end she has begun a number of initiatives in schools, churches, and other community centers in the area.

Ms. Johnson is currently serving on the Collaborative Data Project Task Force and is an alumna of the Mellon Orchestra Forum.

Ms. Johnson received a B.A. in Honors Political Science and French Language, with an equivalent of a dance minor, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her Masters in Arts Administration is from Brooklyn College.

With husband John Hickox and daughter Zoë, Ms. Johnson resides in Norfolk, Virginia; son Ian is off at the University of Virginia. While Carla Johnson is completely devoted to music and organizations which make the music, her passion is gardening because plants either live or die, but they don’t negotiate.

Charles Ullery has been principal bassoonist of the SPCO since 1975. Prior to that, he was a member of the San Francisco Symphony and the Sixth Army Band at the Presidio in San Francisco. He is a frequent soloist with the SPCO. Many composers have written works for him, including Michael Daugherty, Daniel Sturm, Russell Platt, Jay Reise, William Wallace, Erika Foin, Akmal Parwez and Daniel S. Godfrey. Ullery has appeared at the Sarasota Music Festival, the Utah Festival, the Rockport Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Carnegie Hall Festival. Since the summer of 1976, he has been principal bassoon of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra in Jackson, Wyoming. In the summer of 2004, Ullery taught at the Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific in Powell River, British Columbia, and at ARIA at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He spent the 1987-88 season as a faculty member at Oberlin College in Ohio, and currently is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota. He especially enjoys teaching high school students out of his home. Ullery graduated cum laude in mathematics from the University of Arizona at age 19, and started graduate work at UCLA before entering the Army.