Background
Pastreich, Peter was born on September 13, 1938 in Brooklyn. Son of Ben and Hortense (Davis) Pastreich.
Pastreich, Peter was born on September 13, 1938 in Brooklyn. Son of Ben and Hortense (Davis) Pastreich.
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Yale College, 1959; postgraduate, New York University School Medicine, 1959-1960; studied trumpet, with Robert Nagle at Yale University studied trumpet, with Raymond Sabarich, Paris.
Assistant manager, Denver Symphony
assistant manager, Baltimore Symphony
manager, Greenwich Village Symphony, New York City, 1960-1963;
general manager, Nashville Symphony, 1963-1965;
general manager, Kansas City Philharmonic, 1965-1966;
assistant manager, manager, St. Louis Symphony, 1966-1978;
executive director, St. Louis Symphony, 1966-1978;
executive director, San Francisco Symphony, since 1978. Instructor orchestra management American Symphony Orchestra League. Board directors National Committee forSymphony Orchestra Support.
Founder San Francisco Youth Orchestra. Representative planning and construction Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco Symphony, 1980.
Member recommendation board of the Avery Fisher Artist Program, Yale University Council committee on music. Past member advisory panel National Endowment for the Arts, co-chairman music panel, 1985. Founding member board directors St. Louis Conservatory, member policy committee Major Orchestra Managers Conference, chairman, 1980.
Board directors Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Stern Grove Festival, San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau. Chairman fund campaign French-American International School, San Francisco. Served with United States Army, 1960.
Member American Symphony Orchestra League (director, chairman, former chairman task force on management training. Member executive and long-range planning committee, chairman standing committee on administrative policy), Association California Symphony Orchestras (director), Bankers Club of San Francisco. Clubs: Yale (New York City).
Married Jamie Garrard Whittington. Children by previous marriages: Anna, Milena, Emanuel, Michael.