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Filing year 2023

Nashville Symphony Association

Nashville, Tennessee·EIN 62-0550979·NTEE A690 · Arts, Culture & Humanities·3
Total revenue
$32M
Total assets
$89.6M
Total expenses
$0
Reported officers
61
Mission

The Nashville Symphony inspires and engages a diverse and growing community with extraordinary live orchestral music experiences. As Middle Tennessee continues to grow and transform, the Nashville Symphony will be a financially robust, leading orchestra fully supported and embraced by the community it serves and recognized by its peers for its innovation and excellence. Key to achieving this vision, the Nashville Symphony will: - Entertain and educate audiences with varied opportunities to engage with orchestral music. - Be recognized as a leading arts organization defined by performing an innovative and excellent portfolio distinguished by a commitment to American music, including underrepresented voices. - Strengthen diversified revenue streams in order to routinely deliver a balanced operating budget and meet goals for endowment contributions. - Build a diverse, welcoming, and effective organization that is a great place to work and is reflective of the Middle Tennessee community.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 12 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefits
Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefitsExecutive compensation
Conductor/music Director
key employee
$603k
$404k
COO (through 12/31/2023)
$233k
VP of Marketing
vice president
$227k
Principal Pops Conductor
highest compensated employee
$158k
Musician
highest compensated employee
$152k
Musician
highest compensated employee
$134k
VP of Venue Management
vice president
$128k
Director/musician (see Schedule O)
board member
$102k
Director/musician (see Schedule O)
board member
$82k
CFO (begin 11/20/2023)
$35k
Cdo (begin 12/1/2023)
$17k

Plus 49 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Arts, Culture & Humanities

Held steady
from 2022

From $598k in 2022 to $603k in 2023.

$598k
2022
$603k
2023
Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.

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