The Chicago Sinfonietta is in the search for a President & CEO. Please click to view the full position description or to nominate/apply.

Chicago Sinfonietta (CS) is recognized as groundbreaking, dynamic, and daring, with core values built around being culturally responsive and advocating inclusivity in all aspects of the 37-year-old organization’s work. The CS is a $3.3 million organization with an orchestra of 63 musicians, 17 FT/PT staff members, and 13 members of the Board of Directors. The CS has been recognized with numerous industry honors, including a 2024 Silver Anthem Award, a 2022 Mellon Foundation Award, and several National Endowment for the Arts grants. Guided by internationally acclaimed Taiwanese-American conductor and Music Director Maestra Mei-Ann Chen since 2011, the CS is a pioneering organization and positive influence in the orchestral world, renowned for its defiantly different outlook, innovative and collaborative programming, and artistry of the highest caliber.

Reporting to the Board of Directors through the Chair of the Board and Executive Committee, the President & CEO is responsible for the organization’s earned and contributed revenue, overall financial strength, engagement with a diverse audience of all ages and backgrounds, operating infrastructure, human resources, and all business management functions of an orchestral organization. The President & CEO has a special responsibility to bind together the organization as an operationally coherent, effective, and ambitious world leader of orchestral music. The President & CEO will be a hands-on and deeply involved fundraiser, audience engager, innovator, leader, and business manager. She/he/they will partner with the Music Director and cultivate an ambitious, high-output environment focused on results achieved through targeted action and staff teamwork.

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