Brent Assink

Short Name: Brent Assink
Full Name: Assink, Brent
Birth Year: 1955

Brent Assink, graduated from Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, and earned a master's degree in musicology and business administration from the University of Minnesota. He served the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra first as assistant manager and then as artistic operations manager (1981-1990). From 1984 to 1990 he was also minister of music at Calvary Christian Reformed Church in Bloomington, Minnesota. Assink became general manager of the San Francisco Symphony in 1990 but returned to the twin cities in 1994 to take the position of president and managing director of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

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Wikipedia Biography

Brent Assink, a Washington state native, is the current executive director of the Fuller Foundation and Fuller Seminary, a position he assumed after concluding an 18-year tenure as executive director of the San Francisco Symphony on March 31, 2017. Assink has been musically involved since childhood, playing the piano and eventually the organ. Assink attended Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in piano performance and business administration in 1977. He earned his master's degree in musicology from the University of Minnesota in 1981.

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