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The National Arts Centre Orchestra has recruited a new managing director from its Icelandic counterpart.

Arna Einarsdóttir, managing director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, will take up the post in the spring of 2019. The job became vacant in June, when Christopher Deacon, the orchestra’s managing director for 22 years, took over as the NAC’s president and chief executive.

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“Arna Einarsdóttir is a brilliant 21st-century leader who knows how to enable an orchestra to thrive artistically and to triumph on the world stage,” Deacon said in a news release Monday. “Her strong commitment to touring, new creation and education, and her ability to strengthen artistic teams, will make her the perfect administrative leader for the National Arts Centre Orchestra.”

Einarsdóttir will form an “outstanding partnership” with musical director Alexander Shelley, Deacon said.

In five years as managing director in Iceland, Einarsdóttir led a “turnaround” that saw the orchestra debt-free, posting surpluses, recruiting world-renowned conductors and performing 100 times a year with tours of Japan, the U.K. and Germany.