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Neale Perl has been appointed executive director of the La Jolla Chamber Music Society. His appointment fills the vacancy created when Geoffrey Brooks resigned last summer. The 32-year-old Perl is assistant director of the Maryland Summer Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts. He is also the director and a performing member of the Washington Chamber Ensemble, a group he founded seven years ago in Washington. Perl, a cellist, graduated from Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory of Music. According to the society’s publicist, Sue Dramm, Perl will assume his duties here no later than Dec. 1. Sources indicated that a previous candidate was ready to be announced earlier in the society’s season, which began Sept. 27 but that those negotiations collapsed unexpectedly at the last moment.