The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra board of directors unanimously elected Michael G. Bronfein as the new chairman of the board on Monday.
Bronfein, 50, has been a board member for 13 years and has served as vice chair since 2000.
Philip D. English, the previous chairman, declined to serve a fourth year and Bronfein was appointed Monday evening at a meeting of the board and the orchestra at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore.
He is a managing partner for the private equity firm Sterling Partners, in Baltimore. Also co-founder of the integrated health care provider, Neighborcare, Bronfein received Ernst and Young?s Entrepreneur of the Year award in 1994. In a written statement, W. Gar Richlin, BSO president and CEO, said, “I have tremendous confidence that under Michael?s leadership, the best years in the history of the Baltimore Symphony are yet to come, and I look forward to working with him.”
