Music Center retains its CEO
Rachel Moore will be president through 2024. Miscikowski is board chairwoman.
Fresh off the opening of its redesigned central plaza, the Music Center announced Thursday that President and Chief Executive Rachel S. Moore’s contract has been renewed for five years, through 2024.
Former L.A. City Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski is the new board chairwoman.
“I’m honored and delighted to be staying another five years — at least!” Moore said in an interview. “And I’m excited to be at the Music Center at this moment, when we’re really looking outward at how we can bring value to every resident of L.A. County. I really do believe that the arts makes people’s lives better, and given that we’re supported by the county taxpayers, it’s our moral obligation to have programming that speaks to the hearts and minds of all people across the county.”
Moore joined the Music Center in 2015. She oversaw the $41-million renovation of the plaza, led by L.A.-based Rios Clementi Hale Studios. She has restructured the organization to make the arts more accessible to L.A. County residents. That included the creation of new divisions, such as TMC Arts, which oversees artistic programming at the Music Center, and TMC Ops, which oversees operations on the Music Center campus and Grand Park. Moore also worked to increase the diversity of the board of directors, from 6% women and people of color to 33%. The directors voted unanimously to extend her contract.
Miscikowski has been a Music Center board member since 2006 and vice chairwoman since 2017. At the reopening of the plaza this summer, the Music Center announced a $12-million gift from Miscikowski and her Ring-Miscikowski/the Ring Foundation. Those funds, with $2 million the Music Center raised, make up seed money for the new TMC Arts Fund, which will provide free and low-cost programming, educational initiatives and dance at the plaza and other Music Center venues.