Kim Noltemy

President & Chief Executive Officer
David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair

Kim Noltemy began her tenure as President & Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association in July 2024. She brings to Los Angeles more than a quarter century of leadership experience in American symphony organizations.

She joined the LA Phil from the Dallas Symphony Association, where she served as the President & CEO from January 2018 to June 2024. At the DSA she instituted comprehensive equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives throughout the organization. This commitment resulted in expanded programming, community initiatives, and increased performance and professional opportunities for BIPOC and women musicians, composers, and staff. Noltemy led the Music Director search and appointed Fabio Luisi as Music Director through 2029. In 2019, she founded the Young Musicians program, which provides free instruments and 8 hours of lessons weekly for 1,800 students in Southern Dallas since its inception. Additionally, she broadened education and youth programs and greatly increased online access to concerts as part of a strategy to expand audiences and foster a wider appreciation of classical music.

Before joining the DSA, she worked for 21 years for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, most recently as its Chief Operating and Communications Officer, overseeing management of the brands, digital strategy, educational activities, the Boston Pops Orchestra, venues including Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, and $46 million in annual earned revenue. While at the BSO, she also served as President of Boston 4 Celebrations, the separate not-for-profit organization that produces the annual July 4 event featuring the Boston Pops.