Founded and led until 2015
SFS Media
SFS Media
Combining Art & Media
John founded (within the San Francisco Symphony) and lead SFS Media until 2015. The San Francisco Symphony has a long and distinguished history of using new technology to reach audiences and bring classical music to millions around the world.
In 2001, the Symphony became the first American orchestra to create its own audio/video label, SFS Media, which produces the Symphony’s CDs and DVDs, as well as radio and TV documentaries.
The recordings of the complete orchestral works of Gustav Mahler garnered the SFS 6 Grammyⓒ awards and John personally received an Emmy Award for “The San Francisco Symphony at 100” and a Deems Taylor award for Executive Producer of the Keeping Score television programs “The Making of a Performance” and “Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony”.