{"id":107349,"date":"2026-01-06T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107349\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:46:13","slug":"five-year-contract-extension-for-music-director-courtney-lewis-at-jacksonville-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107349\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-Year Contract Extension for Music Director Courtney Lewis at Jacksonville Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the December 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/pontevedrarecorder.com\/stories\/jacksonville-symphony-extends-lewis-contract-into-2032,159247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ponte Vedra Recorder\u00a0<\/a>(Florida), an unbylined article states, \u201cThe Jacksonville Symphony has announced that Music Director Courtney Lewis\u2019 contract has been extended through June 2032 \u2026 While his current contract runs through 2027, the board voted last month to approve a five-year extension. Lewis \u2026 has served as music director since 2015 \u2026 Said President and CEO Steven B. Libman \u2026 \u2018Courtney\u2019s passion and his belief that orchestral music is essential to a thriving community embody the values that guide our mission\u2026.\u2019 His tenure has been defined by an expansion of the symphony\u2019s repertoire\u2014from Mahler and Bruckner symphonies to modern masterpieces\u2014and a renewed commitment to presenting the music of today\u2019s leading composers\u2026. The symphony has also attracted exceptional young [musicians] \u2026\u00a0 Lewis has appeared with major orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Grant Park Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and Hall\u00e9 Orchestra. Prior to his work in Jacksonville, he served as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic and has held leadership roles with the Minnesota Orchestra and Boston\u2019s Discovery Ensemble.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the December 18 Ponte Vedra Recorder\u00a0(Florida), an unbylined article states, \u201cThe Jacksonville Symphony has announced that Music&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33987,116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-107349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-conductors","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}