Kevin Wood

Kevin WoodExecutive Director, Pottstown Symphony Orchestra610.327.6414wood0619@aol.com

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Mr. Kevin Wood

Kevin Wood came to the Pottstown Symphony last October, bringing with him a wealth of experience as an executive, musician, composer, producer, teacher and author.He began his career as a university instructor in Music History, having been on the faculties of both the University of Dayton, in Ohio and of Southern Illinois University, in Illinois.
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Kevin Wood is respected as a translator and author, having recently completed his new book, "The Truth and Other Lies" which will be published by Grunwald Verlag in Berlin.He is known in Germany as a lecturer on music and has done so both on TV there as well as at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival.

Executive Director & CEO , Mr. Kevin Wood ,executivedirector@pottstownsymphony.org

Kevin Wood, Executive Director and CEO

Kevin Wood came to the Pottstown Symphony last October, bringing with him a wealth of experience as an executive, musician, composer, producer, teacher and author.He began his career as a university instructor in Music History, having been on the faculties of both the University of Dayton, in Ohio and of Southern Illinois University, in Illinois.
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Kevin Wood is respected as a translator and author.His new book, "The Truth and Other Lies" is being published in the US this fall..He is known in Germany as a lecturer on music and has done so both on TV there as well as at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival.

Kevin Wood, Executive Director and CEO

Kevin Wood holds up a photo of his wife, Christel Doellstaedt.
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Kevin Wood holds up a photo of his wife, Christel Doellstaedt.
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Hired in October as the new executive director for the Pottstown Symphony, Wood returned to the United States after years spent in the classical music profession in Germany.

He also left his wife of 12 years, Christel Doellstaedt, in Hamburg with the expectation that she would join him around Thanksgiving and begin treatment at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia.Wood said his wife suffers from two eye ailments that leave her with only about 30 percent of her vision.Those ailments may have contributed to the accidental packing of her passport and visa in the shipping container that preceded her to the United States.
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Wood said the process there can take as long as eight weeks.
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"Kevin called me and I knew about his situation, and at first I thought about my son, Joe, who is in a law practice with Bo Biden, Sen. (Joe) Biden's son," Koury said.
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All Doellstaedt's visa information was tied to the previous passport and, again, a formidable German bureaucracy stood between Wood and his wife.
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But Wood, who was born in the Bronx and immigrated to Germany to run the European branch of an international classical music concern there, knows what had been accomplished was no small thing.

"They pulled out every stop," Wood said.
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Wood got his marriage papers 12 years ago after he and his wife met at a museum.

"We were both admiring this same painting at a Picasso exhibit and we started talking.I invited her for coffee and then she called me, and, well, you know how it goes after that," Wood said with a laugh.

Wood's qualifications are no laughing matter.

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1978 for his work at Galaxy Music Corp., he has worked for BMG Marketing, Sony Classical, was a product manager for BMG's classical division in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, as well as executive director of the Jena Philharmonic in that German city.

Although he liked Germany, as much for his romantic occurrence as its cultural charm, the economy, high unemployment rate and high taxes there helped convince him to return.

He said he decided to take the job with the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra in part because he learned that Rosalind Erwin was its musical director.

"Roz Erwin has a wonderful reputation overseas in the classical music circles, so I knew it would be a great job," Wood said.

Also great, Wood said, is his wife's pending arrival and her January appointment at Wills Eye Hospital.She is scheduled to arrive at Newark Airport on Christmas Day, when Wood will officially welcome her home, just in time for the holidays.

Kevin Wood holds up a photo of his wife, Christel Doellstaedt. | Full Story
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Kevin Wood holds up a photo of his wife, Christel Doellstaedt.
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Kevin Wood holds up a photo of his wife, Christel Doellstaedt.
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Hired in October as the new executive director for the Pottstown Symphony, Wood returned to the United States after years spent in the classical music profession in Germany.

He also left his wife of 12 years, Christel Doellstaedt, in Hamburg with the expectation that she would join him around Thanksgiving and begin treatment at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia.Wood said his wife suffers from two eye ailments that leave her with only about 30 percent of her vision.Those ailments may have contributed to the accidental packing of her passport and visa in the shipping container that preceded her to the United States.
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Wood said the process there can take as long as eight weeks.
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"Kevin called me and I knew about his situation, and at first I thought about my son, Joe, who is in a law practice with Bo Biden, Sen. (Joe) Biden's son," Koury said.
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All Doellstaedt's visa information was tied to the previous passport and, again, a formidable German bureaucracy stood between Wood and his wife.
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But Wood, who was born in the Bronx and immigrated to Germany to run the European branch of an international classical music concern there, knows what had been accomplished was no small thing.

"They pulled out every stop," Wood said.
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Wood got his marriage papers 12 years ago after he and his wife met at a museum.

"We were both admiring this same painting at a Picasso exhibit and we started talking.I invited her for coffee and then she called me, and, well, you know how it goes after that," Wood said with a laugh.

Wood's qualifications are no laughing matter.

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1978 for his work at Galaxy Music Corp., he has worked for BMG Marketing, Sony Classical, was a product manager for BMG's classical division in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, as well as executive director of the Jena Philharmonic in that German city.

Although he liked Germany, as much for his romantic occurrence as its cultural charm, the economy, high unemployment rate and high taxes there helped convince him to return.

He said he decided to take the job with the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra in part because he learned that Rosalind Erwin was its musical director.

"Roz Erwin has a wonderful reputation overseas in the classical music circles, so I knew it would be a great job," Wood said.

Also great, Wood said, is his wife's pending arrival and her January appointment at Wills Eye Hospital.She is scheduled to arrive at Newark Airport on Christmas Day, when Wood will officially welcome her home, just in time for the holidays.