Elizabeth Gwinn Steps Down from Bach Festival Society

(Winter Park, FL—December 3, 2021)— Elizabeth (Betsy) Gwinn, Executive Director of Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, has resigned. Effective immediately, Board of Trustees Vice President Kathy Berlinsky will assume the position of Interim Executive Director. The Board of Trustees will conduct a nationwide search for a new Executive Director. We are thankful for Betsy’s fifteen years of service to Bach, and we wish her the best in her future endeavors.

For questions regarding the transition, please contact Board of Trustees President Dr. Jack Schott at media@BachFestivalFlorida.org.

Founded in 1935 in Winter Park, Florida, the Bach Festival Society is one of the longest continuously operating Bach Festivals in the country and is well ranked among America’s great oratorio societies. The Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra bring the highest caliber of classical music to Central Florida in the intimate settings of Tiedtke Concert Hall and Knowles Memorial Chapel on the Rollins College campus for the Society’s Annual Bach Festival, Choral Masterworks, and Visiting Artists performances. It presents a variety of educational and community outreach programs year-round. More information is available at BachFestivalFlorida.org.

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park is supported in part by numerous individual donors; the Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation; the Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation; Orange County Government through the Arts & Cultural Affairs Program; United Arts of Central Florida, host of OrlandoAtPlay.com and UAArtsEd.com; by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and our partner Rollins College.