{"id":473968,"date":"2026-10-23T00:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473968\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T00:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:36:12","slug":"fort-worth-symphony-ceo-keith-cerny-to-leave-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473968\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Symphony CEO Keith Cerny to leave in January"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith\u00a0Cerny, president and CEO of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra<\/a> since 2019, will leave in January to head an out-of-state arts organization to be named.<\/p>\n

His departure was announced in a news release issued by the FWSO Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Cerny was general director of the Dallas Opera<\/a> between 2010 and 2017, leaving for a short tenure as general director of Calgary Opera in Canada.<\/p>\n

In cooperation with FWSO board chair Mercedes T. Bass, Cerny hired American conductor Robert Spano<\/a> as the orchestra\u2019s music director, starting in 2022, and principal guest conductors Kevin John Edusei (from 2022 to 2025) and, since 2025, Jane Glover.<\/p>\n

Cerny has worked with Spano to create mixed-media symphonic programs in partnerships with area theater and dance companies and art museums. Spano has also inaugurated a chamber music series.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With Cerny\u2019s and Bass\u2019 leadership, the FWSO was the rare orchestra to keep musicians and staff on full pay during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

An accomplished pianist with degrees in music and physics from the University of California, Berkeley, Cerny holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Ph.D. in econometrics and development policy from the Open University in the U.K. Before joining the Dallas Opera, he worked for the management consulting firms McKinsey & Co. and Accenture, as executive director and CFO of the San Francisco Opera, and CEO of\u00a0SheetMusicPlus.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith\u00a0Cerny, president and CEO of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra since 2019, will leave in January to head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,95191,93542,88643,99469],"class_list":["post-473968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tp-classical-music","tag-tp-performing-arts","tag-tp-fort-worth","tag-tp-fort-worth-symphony-orchestra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}