Philippe Rixhon Associates are performing arts entrepreneurs driven by a dual professional passion: they are trained and practicing artists as well as educated and accomplished managers. Members of a team – bringing complementary talents and different experiences, they are also members of a club – sharing the same values.
Four core associates are the leaders and stewards of the company –
Claudia Castro is a flutist and arts administrator. She studied and taught at the Escola de Música de Brasilia, attended music festivals in Brazil, Germany and England, and performs professionally in solo and chamber music recitals. As an arts administrator, she has worked mostly for nonprofit performing arts organisations in Boston, where she was involved in strategic planning, program management, marketing, development and financial management. Claudia honed her skills at The Boston Conservatory, while managing Summer Programs in Music, Theatre and Dance. As the Managing Director of The Nora Theatre Company, Claudia participated in a joint capital campaign to build a state-of-the-art theatre, home to The Nora Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater. She helped incorporate Central Square Theater, an innovative public-private umbrella organisation that will support the mission of its two resident companies, and implement its centralised organisational structure. She also worked at Herbert Barrett Management, an artist management company based in New York, assisting artist managers and served on a national grant panel of Programa Cultura Viva of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture. Claudia holds a B.M. in Music Performance from the University of Brasilia, an M.A. in Music Performance from New York University, and a M.Sc. in Arts Administration from Boston University. She is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Francesco Chiaravalloti discovered his passion for the performing arts very early and has been playing piano since the age of ten. Today, as well as joining Philippe Rixhon Associates in 2006, Francesco is a lecturer and researcher in Arts Management at the University of Utrecht. He has worked as a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Society in the areas of performance measurement and management, benchmarking and project management – both for commercial and nonprofit organisations. Subsequently, he now conducts independent research to improve the management practice of performing arts organisations and provide them with long term sustainability, focusing on the development of innovative performance measurement and on management systems that include artistic quality indicators. He has also worked as a Business Process Reengineering specialist at Deloitte & Touche, and a software development manager at Siemens. Francesco publishes and lectures internationally. He graduated in Management Engineering from the University Tor Vergata in Rome, and in Piano Performance from the Conservatory Giovanni Paisiello in Taranto. He is fluent in Italian, English, German and Dutch.
Philippe Rixhon is a leading expert in the convergence of entertainment, media and technology. He founded Philippe Rixhon Associates in 1983. He was involved with Brussels’ Théâtre d’Art at the age of fourteen; theatre has been his passion ever since. Before focusing on performing arts production and literary creation, Philippe spent twenty years managing successful and innovative projects for major companies in ten countries; some of his works have been financed by the German Government, others by the European Commission, during which time he led prestigious teams, developing groundbreaking systems. He has been vice-president at Zühlke Engineering, the leading Swiss think-tank, and partner at Accenture, the global provider of management and technology services. Philippe graduated in philosophy and engineering from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and in management from Boston University. He studied acting at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, set design at the Belgian Centre d‘Études Théâtrales, and theatre directing at Middlesex University. Philippe is fluent in English, French and German. He publishes and lectures internationally.
Vanessa Rose-Pridemore is a violinist and the managing director of The Knights. Before coming to them, she worked with the Patron Program & Membership department at the Metropolitan Opera, at the League for American Orchestras in development and special projects, and at the New York Youth Symphony in operations. In 2006, Vanessa completed the League’s Orchestra Management Fellowship Program, which included residencies with the Dallas Symphony, Elgin Symphony, Aspen Music Festival and School, and San Francisco Symphony. She has managed corporate sponsorships of the League’s National Conference, led a complete web site revision at the Dallas Symphony, completed the financial analysis of the impact of a new hall in Elgin, Illinois, written successful funding proposals for the League, Dallas Symphony, and New York Youth Symphony, managed the Youth Symphony’s Carnegie Hall series, and stewarded the support of the Met’s most generous patrons. Vanessa is an active freelance violinist in New York and has performed with, among others, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony, and Spoleto Festival. She comes from a musical family and holds performance degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Mannes College of Music, and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, The Netherlands. Vanessa is fluent in English and Dutch.
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