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This title stems from a $10 million endowment made by David Bohnett to the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2014, "in honor of Deborah Borda's continuing accomplishments with the Los Angeles Philharmonic". Bohnett Presidential Chair of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. She was previously the manager of The Handel and Haydn Society, an executive director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, president and managing director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and both general manager and artistic administrator of the San Francisco Symphony. She was the assistant to the scheduling director of the Marlboro Music Festival in 1976. Career Īfter graduation, Borda moved to Greenwich Village and started to play as a freelancer for ballet, Broadway shows and various orchestras. She graduated from Bennington College with a BA in music in 1971, and studied at the Royal College of Music from 1972 to 1973. At the age of 12 her family moved to Boston. Borda was born on July 15, 1949, in New York.