Welcome to FellowsForum.org, an online community and resource for over 150 current participants and alumni of the American Symphony Orchestra League's Orchestra Management Fellowship Program. First convened in February 2004, the Fellows Forum seeks to provide life-long camaraderie, inspiration, renewal, learning, and challenging growth opportunities for its members, and to create new avenues for members to strengthen orchestra institutions. Our mission is to share and build upon learning from the orchestra and arts field (and beyond), and to bring forward areas of interest and concern for discussion, leadership, and action.

Click here for Fellowship Program alumni contacts
Click here for a list of Fellows Forum steering committee members
Click here for minutes from past Fellows Forum meetings

Do you know someone who would make a great candidate for the Fellowship Program? Click here to make a referral.

This website is in continual development, with more resources being added all the time. Check back regularly for updates on:

• Planning for the Fellows Forum Retreat to take place by 2006
• The next Fellows Forum meeting at the January 2006 Midwinter Managers' Meetings in New York City
• The Fellows Forum bulletin board, where you can stay in touch with other Fellows Forum members by starting an online conversation or adding your thoughts to an existing discussion.
• Conference calls for Fellows Forum members to touch base
• Events of interest to Fellows around the country
• Documents and readings of interest to Fellows
• Skills and interests inventory for Fellows Forum members

Created in 1981, the Orchestra Management Fellowship Program is a specialized year-long leadership training program designed to launch executive careers in orchestra management. Through residencies with orchestras of various sizes as well as leadership seminars and a comprehensive overview of the concert music industry, program staff and host orchestra executive directors nurture the leadership and management skills in each Fellow. Program graduates currently hold over 75 leadership positions in American orchestras.

We welcome the class of 2005-2006. Click here to read more about them and where they are going over the next year.

We salute the outgoing class of 2004-2005. Click here to find out what they’re doing now.

For more information about the Fellowship Program, visit www.symphony.org/ola/fellowship.shtml.