Emil J. Kang
Born1968
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Rochester
OccupationArts Administrator
SpouseLisa Marie Kang
ChildrenEmma Kang

Emil J. Kang (born 1968 in New York City) serves as Program Director for Arts and Cultural Heritage at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation where he leads the Foundation’s grant making program. Kang assumed the role in 2019.

From 2005 to 2019, Kang was at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the University’s first Executive Director for the Arts, a senior administrative post created to help unify and elevate the performing arts at the University.[1][2][3] In his first season, Emil Kang introduced the University’s first major performing arts series, inaugurated in conjunction with the grand re-opening of the University’s main performing arts venue, Memorial Hall.[4][5][6] Emil Kang also taught courses in arts leadership, artistic entrepreneurship[7] and performance studies.[8] Kang was also a member of the music faculty and served as Professor of the Practice.[9]

In May 2016, Kang was also appointed Special Assistant to the Chancellor for the Arts at UNC-Chapel Hill.

In 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Kang as a Member of the National Council on the Arts. He replaced Benjamin Donenberg, whose term was expiring. Kang's term will last until September 3, 2018.[10]

He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the Martha Graham Dance Company and the International Society of the Performing Arts. Kang has served on the boards of EMCarts, the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP),[11] North Carolina Symphony[12] the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.[13]

Prior to coming to Chapel Hill, Emil Kang served as President and Executive Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO).[14][15] Kang was the youngest and first Asian-American to hold the top administrative post of a major symphony orchestra. Emil Kang has also held positions of Vice President of Operations for the DSO, Orchestra Manager for the Seattle Symphony, and Orchestra Management Fellow with the American Symphony Orchestra League (ASOL).[16] As an Orchestra Management Fellow, Kang worked with symphony orchestras in San Francisco, Houston, and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

References

  1. ↑ UNC News release – Kang named first executive arts director. Unc.edu. Retrieved on October 18, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 12, 2007. Retrieved October 20, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "A common goal - Arts". Archived from the original on March 7, 2007. Retrieved October 20, 2007.
  4. ↑ www.newsobserver.com https://web.archive.org/web/20051204012636/http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/372834.html. Archived from the original on December 4, 2005. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ Invest in Carolina | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carolinafirst.unc.edu. Retrieved on October 18, 2011.
  6. ↑ Invest in Carolina | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carolinafirst.unc.edu. Retrieved on October 18, 2011.
  7. ↑ Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative Archived 2010-06-12 at the Wayback Machine. Kenaninstitute.unc.edu. Retrieved on October 18, 2011.
  8. ↑ 29469.indd. (PDF) . Retrieved on October 18, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Emil Kang — UNC Music Department". music.unc.edu. Archived from the original on February 27, 2009.
  10. ↑ "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate". whitehouse.gov. May 8, 2012 – via National Archives.
  11. ↑ "Seven New Directors". Archived from the original on January 29, 2009. Retrieved January 18, 2009.
  12. ↑ Press Releases – North Carolina Symphony Archived 2010-12-31 at the Wayback Machine. Ncsymphony.org (October 14, 2011), Henry Ford Hospital's Detroit Campus, and the United Neighborhood Centers Association. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of Retrieved on October 18, 2011.
  13. ↑ "Kenanarts.org".
  14. ↑ Detroit Symphony Orchestra Celebrates New Home. NPR (October 10, 2003). Retrieved on October 18, 2011.
  15. ↑ A Veteran Vanquishes His Younger Contenders To Lead the Symphony. New York Times (November 2, 2003). Retrieved on October 18, 2011.
  16. ↑ Symphony Magazine – League of American Orchestras. Symphony.org. Retrieved on October 18, 2011.
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