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MATÍAS TARNOPOLSKY, DIRECTOR OF CAL PERFORMANCES
At the start of his tenure as Executive and Artistic Director of Cal Performances in 2009, Matías Tarnopolsky articulated three major artistic values around which Cal Performances is organized—artistic excellence, advocacy, and accessibility—and which inform the ambitious performing arts and education programming he has implemented. Intent on deepening the relationship between the world’s great orchestras and the UC Berkeley campus and community, he launched an exemplary orchestra residency program that includes lectures, master classes, and symposia and has brought the Vienna Philharmonic, Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra, and Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra to Berkeley.  Tarnopolsky launched Ojai North, an artistic partnership with the esteemed Ojai Music Festival, and, to nurture new audiences, he created the Fall Free for All, an annual daylong festival that welcomes more than 13,000 people to campus to explore and enjoy a broad range of Cal Performances’ music, dance, and theater presentations, free of charge. As Executive and Artistic Director of one of the top presenting organizations in the world, Tarnopolsky oversees all aspects of approximately 125 performances each year to audiences numbering 150,000, and world-class educational programs that reach more than 20,000 young people annually.