Overture Center For The Arts

Specialties

Performing arts, visual arts, community festivals, meetings, conferences, weddings, special events

History

Established in 2004.

Overture Center for the Arts is a stunning architectural landmark in the heart of Madison’s thriving cultural arts district. In addition to housing ten resident organizations and presenting more than 200 performances, art exhibitions, and educational and community events each year, Overture offers a variety of venues for performances, corporate meetings, conventions, trade shows, weddings, banquets, and receptions.

Meet the Manager

Ted D.

Manager

Ted has managed a number of performing arts facilities in Tennesee, Dallas and New York State in a career that spans nearly 35 years.

He earned a degree in music education from the State University of New York, College at Fredonia. He managed the Eastman Theatre in Rochester from 1978 – 88; opened and ran the newly-​built Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas from 1988 – 94; served as executive vice president and general manager of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville from 1995 – 2002; helped design and construct the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, also in Nashville, from 2002 until it opened in 2006, and stayed on as executive director until 2007, when he moved on to the McCoy Center, where he has served as executive director for the past five years. He is one of only about a dozen peforming arts venue managers in the country to hold the title of Certified Facility Executive (CFE) from the International Association of Venue Managers.