Mervon Mehta steps down after 17 years as Royal Conservatory of Music's performing arts director
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Brad Wheeler
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Mervon Mehta is stepping down after 17 years as executive director of performing arts at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where he programmed over 1,200 concerts at Koerner Hall featuring a wide range of artists from classical to jazz, pop, and blues. Mehta previously held leadership roles at the Ravinia Festival and Kimmel Center, and his tenure transformed Koerner Hall into a major performing arts venue.
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· 2 pulledWhen Mervon Mehta was approached by the Royal Conservatory of Music to run its performing arts component, its state-of-the-art centrepiece theatre was nothing more than a hole in the ground.
The dirt pit was filled in 2009 with Koerner Hall, which Mehta in turn filled with some 1,200 classical, pop, jazz and blues concerts over 17 seasons as executive director of performing arts for the conservatory
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