The new executive director and general manager of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra hopes to increase the symphony’s profile.
Ryleigh Dupuis would like to make the TBSO as popular as hockey is.
“Thunder Bay tends to be a very sports-focused city and I would love to shift some of that focus into the arts and get people as excited about the arts as we are about our hockey teams,” says Dupuis.
The TBSO official grew up in Thunder Bay and is excited to be coming back home explaining she grew up in the arts community in the city and “this was an opportunity that I was so excited about when I saw it and when it (the position) was offered, I was beyond thrilled.”
Dupuis worked as an HR specialist and station manager for WestJet where she moved through 17 cities from coast to coast and for a talent agency in Vancouver.
She begins her job in Thunder Bay on September the first.
