Gary Ginstling

Education Ginstling started plaing the clarinet in fourth grade.

Ginstling majored in music at Yale University,

Career

Ginstling spent 12 years performing as a clarinet player with the New World Symphony before moving into academia.

After completing his MBA at Anderson, Ginstling had a three-year role in the technology industry working as a product marketing manager for the Java platform at Sun Microsystems.

Leaving Berkeley, Ginstling worked as director of communications and external affairs for the San Francisco Symphony.

Ginstling was executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in Washington, D.C. beginning in August 2017. While at the NSO, Ginstling developed new ways of reaching audiences, driving up ticket sales, subscriptions and donations.

On January 10, 2025, Houston Symphony Board President Barbara J. Burger announced that Ginstling was appointed to the position of Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Houston Symphony where he will would hold the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, to begin on February 3, 2025.

Other activities Ginstling serves on boards of the League of American Orchestras and the Electronic Media Association.