Bob McPhee, General Director & CEO of Calgary Opera, was the inaugural recipient of the Rozsa Award for Excellence in Arts Management in 2003. He began his career as a performing artist.  The last 20 years have seen him involved in many facets of arts administration including marketing, development, production, and senior management.  In this capacity he has worked in 4 performing arts disciplines, theatre, dance, orchestra and opera.  As President of the Edmonton Concert Hall Foundation, Bob was in charge of fundraising and construction of the $45M state-of-the-art Winspear Centre for Music.

In 2003 Bob was the Producer of the most successful world premiere of John Estacio and John Murrell’s Opera “Filumena” and in 2006 “Frobisher”. He has also initiated a one of a kind emerging artist development program in Canada.

Bob has been fortunate to receive several awards for his leadership in the Arts including the Chalmers National Award for Excellence in Arts Administration. Until recently he was chair of the Board of Opera.ca and now he sits on the Board of Opera AMERICA.

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