President & CEO, Santa Rosa Symphony

Alan Silow is President and CEO of the Santa Rosa Symphony. He has held this leadership position since July of 2002 and will be retiring after 21 years in July 2023. During his tenure, the Symphony returned to a fiscally sound basis that produced surpluses in operations annually for 20 years, while tripling the annual budget to $5 million and growing the endowment from $1.5 million to over $17 million. Silow played a leadership role in the public/private partnership with Sonoma State University to build a new world-class symphony hall that opened in Fall 2012 where the Santa Rosa Symphony is now the resident orchestra of the Green Music Center.

Silow’s accomplishments were recognized with a nonprofit leadership award for innovation, community engagement and growth given by North Bay Business Journal in October 2012 and received several awards in recognition of service including the first ‘Heart of Sonoma County Excellence in Leadership’ in 2022.

Prior to taking this position, he concluded a successful, three-year tenure as Executive Director of ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Columbus, Ohio. Previous positions include Director of Marketing & Public Relations for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Executive Director of the Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau. During his tenure, readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine named Santa Fe the top travel destination in the world.

Silow graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an undergraduate B.A. degree in Economics with Honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs. He is married to a lovely and talented university professor, with one son who currently practices as an attorney in NYC.  He lives in Oakmont.