Erik Rönmark

About Erik Rönmark

Appointed President and CEO of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in December 2021, Erik Rӧnmark has played an integral role in shaping the future of one of America’s great orchestras as a member of its administration since 2005, serving most recently as its Vice President and General Manager. During his time with the DSO, Rönmark has established the orchestra’s reputation as an ensemble that recognizes its rich legacy while promoting and embracing modern and diverse repertoire. He led the Music Director search that culminated in the appointment in 2020 of Jader Bignamini, a vibrant and youthful artistic leader destined to reshape what is possible for orchestral music in the City of Detroit.Rönmark has also been a central player in some of the DSO’s biggest innovations of the past decade, including the DSO’s pioneering, free Live from Orchestra Hall webcasts and the DSO Replay webcast archive. He subsequently oversaw the development and expansion of the DSO’s livestreaming capabilities so that the orchestra was uniquely positioned at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to keep the music playing with DSO Digital Concerts in a largely virtual 20••••21 season. Rönmark also helped bring the DSO to new audiences locally through the William Davidson Neighborhood Concert Series and globally through the orchestra’s first international tour in 16 years to Japan and China in 2017. Off stage, he has helped lead the development of the DSO’s comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy, as well as the vision for the DSO Impact endowment campaign.Recognized as one of Musical America’s 30 Professionals of the Year in 2018 and Crain’s Detroit’s “40 under 40” leaders in 2016, Rönmark is also the co-founder and Executive Director for the contemporary group New Music Detroit, as well as a recent member of the arts administration faculty at Roosevelt University. He holds degrees in fine arts and music performance from Northern State University, SD, Bowling Green State University, OH, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan.He lives in Troy, MI with his wife, Adrienne Rönmark, violinist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and their three children.

Experience

1. Saxophonist and Co-founder

   New Music Detroit

   May 2007 — Present · Detroit, MI, US

   New Music Detroit is a new music collective dedicated to the promotion of contemporary classical music.

Education

• University of Michigan

  D.M.A., Music

• Bowling Green State University

  M.M., Music

• Northern State University

  B.A., Music

Skills

• Orchestral Music
• Classical
• Chamber Music
• Music
• Saxophone