Los Angeles General Manager
Resume:
PETER SOMOGYI
Pasadena, California 91107
818-***-**** *******@*****.***
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterjeansomogyi
Executive Profile
Artistic Operations & Administration Program Development Performing Arts
Casting Contract Negotiations Team Leadership Vendor/Client Relations
Recognized and respected as an experienced general manager and artistic administrator, with thirty years of proven success in prominent performing arts organizations. A superb communicator who brings together all aspects of talent acquisition and management, and represents an affiliated organization professionally to the community.
Provides leadership and guidance which results in unqualified successes within prominent arts organizations. An expert at talent casting; audition management; development and implementation of community outreach programs; organizational communications and managing operations to meet organizational creative vision. Extensive qualifications in the following competencies:
Strategic Alliances Operating Budgets
Programming Repertoire Performing Arts Organizations
Artist Representation Project Management & Implementation
Casting Singers, Instrumentalists & Conductors Labor Agreements
Grant Writing Board of Directors Cultivation
Webinar and Podcast Implementation/Participation Generating Revenue for continued operations
Identifying and onboarding Investors
Career Synopsis
Artelize, Los Angeles, CA March 2021 - Present
Co-Founder and Business Development Executive, US
Angels Vocal Art, Arcadia, CA August 2019 - Present
Vice President and Member of the Board of Directors
Operabase, Copenhagen, Denmark 2019 – 2020
Director of Client Relations, North America
Vox International Artists, Oakland, CA 2016 - 2019
Co-Founder, Senior Vice President, and Artist Manager
Asawa and Associates, Los Angeles, CA 2015 - 2016
Founding Partner and Booking Associate
Chesapeake International Artists, Tilghman, MD 2013 - 2015
Artistic Consultant and Senior Booking Associate
Chapman University, Orange, CA 2013 - 2014
Artistic Consultant for the Musco Center for the Arts
Arizona Opera, Phoenix, AZ 2010 - 2012
Director of Artistic Administration
Florida Grand Opera, Miami, FL 2009 - 2010
Director of Artistic Administration
Opera Pacific, Santa Ana/Costa Mesa, CA 2007 - 2009
Manager of Artistic Planning and Administration
New West Symphony, Thousand Oaks, CA 2005 - 2007
General Manager
Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles, CA 1989 - 2005
Artistic Administrator
Metropolitan Opera Association, Manhattan, NY 1987 - 1989
Assistant Artistic Administrator
San Francisco Opera Association, San Francisco, CA 1984 - 1987
Librarian and Media Projects Assistant
Education & Training
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA - Master of Arts degree in Musicology
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - Bachelor of Arts degree in Music
Professional Activities, Associations & Community
Angels Vocal Art - July 2023: Performed role of the Narrator/Announcer in Menotti’s The Old Maid and The Thief
Manager of Artistic and Production Operations for "Operatic Fusion" - Concert at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, California (under the auspices of the Orange County High School of the Arts Foundation)
Los Angeles Opera: Surtitles Creator for operas including Billy Budd, Peter Grimes, Countess Maritza, The Merry Widow, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Nicholas and Alexandra, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Vanessa, and the B Minor Mass
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Surtitles Creator for compositions including L’enfant et les Sortilèges, El Niño, L’Histoire du soldat, L’enfance du Christ, Carmina Burana and Iolanta (Tchaikovsky)
Ojai Festival: Surtitles Creator for Les Noces and Die Kluge
Los Angeles Master Chorale: Surtitles Creator for most programming from 1992 through 2005
Los Angeles Children's Chorus: Surtitles Creator for the world premiere of the children's opera, “Keepers of the Night”
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions - Western Region, Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Awards - Semi-Finals and Finals, Palm Springs Opera Guild Competition, Laila Conlin Vocal Competition, Denver Lyric Opera Guild, and the Orange County High School of the Arts: Adjudicator
Metropolitan Opera National Council: Member, Board of Directors
Angel Vocal Arts: Member, Board of Directors
Classical Singers Association: Member, Board of Directors
The Opera Buffs Inc: Member, Board of Directors
Classical Singers Association: Participated as a Master Class Panelist on several occasions.
San Francisco Opera Chorus and Los Angeles Master Chorale: Performed as a chorus ensemble member.
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