Board of Trustees
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera’s Board of Trustees has the ultimate responsibility for the success of the Utah Symphony, Utah Opera, and the Deer Valley® Music Festival. Trustees are accountable for the governance of the parent corporation, Utah Symphony & Opera, for establishing the overall vision and mission, and for participating in the development and monitoring of institutional plans. Trustees have a legal and fiduciary responsibility to assure that the organization does the best work possible in pursuit of its mission and goals; fundraising is a principal component of that responsibility. Trustees must exhibit a passion for great live musical experiences in our community.
2025-26 BOARD MEETING SCHEDULE By-Laws Mission, Vision, and Values StatementMINUTES FROM LAST BOARD MEETING
Elected Trustees
Executive Committee
Annette W. Jarvis
Chair
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Steven Brosvik
USUO President & CEO
The O.C. Tanner Chair
Brian Greeff
Immediate Past Chair
Global Head, Prime Services Operations, Client Onboarding Operations, and Fees and Commissions Operations, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
Judy Moreton
Vice Chair
Community Leader
Joanne Shiebler
Vice Chair
(retired) President and Founder
Asset Communications, Inc.
Thomas Wright
Vice Chair
Nominating Committee Chair President, Majestic Realty Collective
CEO & Principal Broker, Summit Sotheby’s International Realty
Jason Englund
Secretary
Governance Committee Chair
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Bonneville International Corporation
John D’Arcy
Audit Committee Chair
(retired) Executive Vice President / Senior Lending Officer
Zions Bank
Barry L. Eden
Finance Committee Chair
(retired) EY Partner, Financial Services Office Leadership
Stephen Tanner Irish
Venues Committee Chair
Academic Researcher
Board of Directors, O.C. Tanner Company
Trustee, Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Thomas M. Love
At Large
Former President and Founding Partner, Love Communications
Travis Peterson
Musician Representative
Principal Trumpet
Utah Symphony
Frank R. Pignanelli
Government Relations Committee Chair
Partner
Foxley & Pignanelli
Patricia A. Richards
At Large
(Retired) Senior Vice President and Regional Manager, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Barbara Ann Scowcroft
Musician Representative
Violin
Utah Symphony
Henry C. Wurts
Investment Committee Chair
Financial Consultant
Dr. Stewart E. Barlow
Otolaryngologist
Congressman District 17, Utah State House of Representatives
Larry Brownstein
(retired) Owner, Waterbury Garment
Paul E. Burdiss
President & CEO, Zions First National Bank
George Cardon-Bystry
Co-founder and CEO, Edison House
Gary L. Crocker
President, Crocker Ventures, LLC
Chairman, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals
David L. Dee
President, David Dee Fine Arts, LLC
Co-Chair, Lawrence T. Dee & Janet T. Dee Foundation
Luz Escamilla
State Senator for District 10 and Senate Democratic Leader
Co-founder and managing partner, ESCATEC Solutions
Jonathan Freedman
President and CEO, World Trade Center Utah
Brandon Fugal
Chairman, Colliers International
Owner, Skinwalker Ranch
Marie Gochnour Gardner
Community Leader
Dennis H. Hranitzky
Partner, Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Thomas N. Jacobson
Attorney
Private Practice
Abigail E. Lowder
Director, Gas Operations
Enbridge Energy Questar Gas Company
Derek B. Miller
President & CEO, Salt Lake Chamber
Dr. Dinesh C. Patel
Managing Director and Founder,
Patel Family Investments
Founder and Partner Emeritus
Signal Peak Ventures (FKA vSpring Capital)
Gary B. Porter
Senior Vice President, Deseret Management Corporation
Community Relations, Human Resources, Executive Director, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Foundation
Jennifer Price-Wallin
Owner, Avenues Investments, Manager, John and Marcia Price Family Foundation
Shari H. Quinney
Arts Advocate and Philanthropist
Miguel R. Rovira
Director Community and Business Relations
Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah
Stan Sorensen
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Altabank
Aaron Starks
CEO and President, 47G – Utah Aerospace & Defense
Clint Stone
Senior Vice President of Investments, The Larry H. Miller Company
Dr. Shane D. Stowell
Co-Founder and COO, Stowell Leadership Group, LLC
Thomas Thatcher
Chief Executive Officer
Intuitive Funding, LLC
W. James Tozer, Jr.
Managing Director
Vectra Management Group
David Utrilla
CEO
US Translation Company
Sharlene Wells
Senior Vice President of Public Relations and Organizational Communications, Mountain America Credit Union
Don Willie
Founder & Managing Partner, Epicenter Strategies
Director of Operations, The Point of the Mountain State Land Authority
Kim R. Wilson
(retired) Attorney
Snow Christensen & Martineau
Ex-Officio Representative
Christina Myers
Onstage Ogden
Lifetime Trustees
- Kem C. Gardner
- Brian Greeff
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
- G. Frank Joklik
- Thomas M. Love
- David T. Mortensen
- Scott S. Parker
- David A. Petersen
- Patricia A. Richards
- Harris Simmons
Honorary Board and Trustees Emeriti
- Carolyn Abravanel
- Jesselie B. Anderson
- Howard S. Clark
- Geralyn Dreyfous
- Lisa Eccles
- Spencer F. Eccles
- Kristen Fletcher
- Dr. Julie Aiken Hansen
- Richard G. Horne
- Ronald W. Jibson
- Dr. Anthony W. Middleton, Jr.
- Edward B. Moreton
- Marilyn H. Neilson
- Stanley B. Parrish
- Marcia Price
- Jeffrey W. Shields, Esq.
- E. Jeffery Smith
Associate Board
- Kylee Dickamore
- Hillary Marquardson
- Rayanne Riepl
- Zachary Scott Roemer
- Stephen Tracy
- Curtis Woodbury
Deer Valley® Music Festival Council
- Larry Brownstein and Jim Tozer, Co-Chairs
- Scott Amann
- Beth Armstrong
- Judy Billings
- Hal Brierley
- Judy Brownstein
- Carolyn Enenstein
- Craig Enenstein
- Lynn Fey
- Kristen Fletcher
- Tom Jacobson
- Debra Kasirer
- Michael Liess
- Bill Ligety
- Renee Marlon
- Tony Marlon
- Pat McEvoy
- Dan McPhun
- Hal Milner
- Lois Milner
- Mark Prothro
- Ted Samuels
- Ben Schapiro
- Joanne Shiebler
- Jim Swartz
- Susan Swartz
- Zibby Tozer
- Howard Wallack
Hispanic and Latino Communities Task Force
- David Utrilla, Chair
- Juan Becerra
- George Brown
- Orlando Criado
- José Enriquez
- Senator Luz Escamilla
- Jaime Gomez
- Israel González-Nieri
- Sydnee Gonzalez
- Alex Guzman
- James Jackson
- Carl Johansen
- Rossina Lake
- Rodrigo Ortigoza
- Gonzalo Peña
- Claudia Restrepo
- Mary Lee Robinson
- Lester Rojas
- Edmund Rollett
- Miguel Rovira