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Strathmore

Chief Executive Officer

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Organization

The story of Strathmore as a destination for the arts began in 1979 when the newly created Strathmore Hall Foundation entered into an agreement with Montgomery County, Maryland, to develop the historic Corby Mansion and grounds as the County’s first center for the arts. Almost 40 years later, Strathmore has become the go-to place for the arts in Montgomery County and beyond, hosting more than 5,000 artists and hundreds of thousands of visitors at its signature exhibitions, concerts, educational events, and outdoor festivals.

Strathmore currently operates three venues—The Music Center at Strathmore (The Music Center), The Mansion at Strathmore, and AMP by Strathmore. The Music Center at Strathmore opened in 2005 and includes a 1,976-seat concert hall with world-class acoustics as well as numerous rehearsal, education, and administrative spaces. The Mansion at Strathmore, the renovated 1899 mansion, features the 100-seat Dorothy M. and Maurice C. Shapiro Music Room, Strathmore Tea Room, Shop at Strathmore, Gudelsky Concert Pavilion and Gazebo, and numerous smaller spaces used primarily for visual arts programming. AMP by Strathmore is a 250-seat venue that presents live music, comedy, and special events that opened in 2015 about two miles north of the main 16-acre campus. An $8 million extension of The Music Center is currently underway, which will enhance patron accessibility, hospitality, and catering options in the front-of-house areas by the summer of 2019.

Artistic offerings presented by Strathmore in The Music Center include 50 to 60 world-class performances annually by major international artists of folk, rock, blues, pop, R&B, jazz, world music, show tunes, dance, and classical music. Strathmore is honored to be a community resource for its six resident partners, including Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as its Founding Partner, National Philharmonic, Washington Performing Arts, Levine Music, CityDance, and The interPLAY Orchestra. Strathmore’s extensive work in education and community outreach is core to its mission. This includes the highly regarded Strathmore Artist in Residence program, Strathmore Children’s Chorus, Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras, the affiliated partnership with Young Artists of America, and dozens of other education and community initiatives such as art camps, tours, and field trips. With a Metro stop at its door and free parking for its on-campus patrons, Strathmore continues to be a major cultural destination. Additional offerings at Strathmore include rentals by outside organizations and promoters.

Through its partnership with Montgomery County Public Schools, Strathmore brings almost 200 hours per year of free master classes, school assemblies, and music clinics to students in grades Pre-K through 8. Bloom, its three-year-old East County initiative, aims to make the arts available to everyone, regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances, and to provide opportunities to create a growing sense of community across Montgomery County.

Strathmore is governed by a 30-member board of directors, of which two are representatives of Montgomery County Government. Its administrative staff consists of approximately 40 full-time and 80 part-time employees. Led by Chief Executive Officer and founder Eliot Pfanstiehl since 1981, Strathmore now has an annual operating budget of approximately $15 million, of which 40 percent is from earned revenue, 30 percent from contributions and government grants, 20 percent from rental income, and 10 percent from investment income and other revenues. Strathmore’s endowment stands at approximately $8 million.