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KenCen Fires Dance Team

The dance programming team at the Kennedy Center under Trump’s control has been fired. One of its members had been at the helm of the effort to unionize employees at the beleaguered … »Read

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Surprising Appointment(s) at the Hong Kong Phil

Austrian businessman Bernhard Fleischer, founder and owner of Bernard Fleischer Moving Images (BFMI), is to be the next CEO of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. BFMI has recorded hundreds of … »Read

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A Rare Evening at the Proms: The Delius Mass

LONDON—Frederick Delius’s A Mass of Life is his longest, most ambitious concert work. For many, it is also his magnum opus, exploring over 100 minutes cosmic ideas of humanity, … »Read

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Music Faculty Additions to UNCSA

University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has 25 new faculty members arriving for the 2025–26 school year, including 12 full-time and 13 adjunct and visiting, in the Schools of … »Read

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Free Chamber Concerts on the Farm

Calby Van Hollebeke, a Master of Arts candidate at Washington State University’s (WSU) School of Music, grew up on a farm and is very aware of the hard work that goes into the annual … »Read

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Ukrainian Freedom O Returns to the UK

As the war between Russia and Ukraine grinds on, Keri-Lynn Wilson and the members of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra (UFO), which she organized in the spring of 2022, admit that their project may … »Read

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Foundations Race to Rescue Public Media

The Trump administration’s gutting of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) as well as National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) has the … »Read

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Recent Strings, Coming & Going

Chicago Sinfonietta section cellist Lindsey Sharpe will move into the principal chair this season, succeeding the orchestra’s founding principal cello Ann Griffin, who moves to coprincipal. … »Read

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Welsh Nat'l O Settles Chorus Dispute

After nearly a year of negotiation and intermittent labor action, the Welsh National Opera (WNO) and the company’s chorus, represented by Equity, have agreed on a new full-time contract that … »Read

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Small Opera Company, Big Agenda

This year the only full Stateside staging of Wagner’s complete Ring of the Nibelungen is being presented in Brattleboro, Vt. TUNDI Productions, founded in 2018 by soprano Jenna Rae and … »Read

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Each month, Musical America spotlights an important emerging talent. If you haven't heard of the New Artist of the Month before, we predict you will soon.


Wendy Waszut-Barrett, designer
New Artist of the Month
August 2025
Oliver Talukder, oboist
New Artist of the Month
July 2025
Katharina Wincor, conductor
New Artist of the Month
June 2025
Catharine Woodward, soprano
New Artist of the Month
May 2025
Abigail Raiford, soprano
New Artist of the Month
April 2025
Ashley Jackson, harpist
New Artist of the Month
March 2025
Kari Watson, composer
New Artist of the Month
February 2025
Gabriela Lara, violinist
New Artist of the Month
January 2025
Madeline Apple Healey, soprano
New Artist of the Month
December 2024
Sterling Elliott, cellist
New Artist of the Month
November 2024
Liza Malamut, trombonist
New Artist of the Month
October 2024
Nancy Ives, composer
New Artist of the Month
September 2024

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