Ed Gazouleas (Viola '84) Appointed Director of the Tanglewood Music Center

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has named Ed Gazouleas (Viola ’84) director of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC), effective May 31, 2024, following his success as TMC’s interim director in the summer of 2023.

Mr. Gazouleas currently serves as Curtis’s first provost and the Gie and Lisa Liem Artistic Director. He will continue in these two roles through the 2023–24 school year when Dean Nick DiBerardino (Composition ’18), will become the school’s provost. Throughout this academic year, Mr. Gazouleas and Mr. DiBerardino will work closely together to ensure continuity for our students and a seamless transition for the Curtis community. At the end of this school year, Mr. Gazouleas will stay on at Curtis in his artistic planning role and as a member of Curtis’s viola faculty.

“So many of Curtis’s talented students, alumni, and faculty have had strong relationships with the Tanglewood Music Center and the Boston Symphony Orchestra over the years. Ed is a valued member of each organization, helping to shape the present and future of our art form.” –President and CEO Roberto Díaz, Curtis Institute of Music

Since Curtis created its provost’s office, the school has seen a successful launch of its master’s program; an increase in applications to the school; deepened relationships with The Philadelphia Orchestra; the expansion of our student life team and support programs; progress towards goals in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; and continued artistic growth in the orchestra, opera, and performance studios; among other achievements. With Mr. Gazouleas’s ongoing work in artistic planning role and Mr. DiBerardino’s elevation to provost at the end of the academic year, Curtis is well positioned to continue its strategic plan trajectory through the centennial and beyond.  

As director of the TMC, Mr. Gazouleas will oversee classes at the center, coaching, rehearsals, and Tanglewood’s performances, working closely with Tony Fogg, vice president of artistic planning at the BSO; Lynn Larsen, vice president of orchestras and production at the BSO; and Bobby Lahart, director of Tanglewood Facilities. For 18 summers he served as a Tanglewood Music Center faculty member, and during his 24-year tenure as a member of the orchestra’s viola section, he was active in orchestra governance, chairing the orchestra’s artistic advisory committee and serving on the search committee that selected Andris Nelsons to be the Boston Symphony’s music director.

“To me, Tanglewood is a dream of art and nature. Every summer fine young musicians arrive seeking instruction and inspiration and I am looking forward to welcoming them once again.”  –Ed Gazouleas

An internationally celebrated violist, educator, and administrator, he joined the Curtis faculty in 2017 and is widely regarded as one of the finest teachers of his generation.

Learn more about Tanglewood HERE, and read more about Ed Gazouleas and Nick DiBerardino.

Banner photo by Nichole MCH Photography. Additional photos of Mr. Gazouleas by Elizabeth Asher. Images of TMC courtesy of the Tanglewood Music Center.