For the past decade, Catherine French has worked with not-for-profit performing arts organizations to recruit chief executives and senior management personnel. Catherine French Group clients include opera companies, symphony orchestras, presenting organizations, music festivals, and schools of music. Ms. French began her career in orchestra administration and she managed the American Symphony Orchestra in New York City and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. She served as chief executive officer of the American Symphony Orchestra League (now League of American Orchestras) from 1980 to 1996. An active volunteer, Ms. French is Chairman of the Board of The Washington Chorus, Vice Chairman of the Board of Overseers of The Curtis Institute of Music, and a member of the Board of Directors of OPERA America and The New York Pops.