Jeffrey Finn, who has overseen theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since 2016, has submitted his resignation, effective Sept. 19. Although he has held open the possibility that he might serve as a consultant on programs … » Read

Raymond Bisha, who over the course of three decades at Naxos rose to the position of senior vice-president of marketing, died suddenly on Aug. 5 at the age of 68. Born to a musical family in Canada, Bisha took a circuitous route to the executive … » Read

The Music School of Delaware, a community school in founded in 1924 and based in Wilmington with branches in Dover and Lewes, has a new president and CEO in David J. Pacific. The school, the largest of its kind in Delaware and serving residents … » Read

American violinist David Radzynski is about to embark upon his third concertmaster gig in as many years, just starting in the post with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg, Germany, of which Alan Gilbert is music director. Radzynski … » Read

Yesterday, Trump surprised staff at Kennedy Center by saying he planned to announce the Kennedy Center honorees today. He just did: Metal band Kiss [pictured]; longtime Phantom of the Opera star Michael Crawford; Gloria Gaynor, best known for her … » Read

The Jackson (TN) Symphony has appointed Tamás Kocsis as its new concertmaster. The Hungarian native studied at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music with Josef Gingold, followed by further training at The Juilliard School under … » Read

James Burton, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s choral director since 2017, will step down from his position at the end of the current Tanglewood season. The British conductor’s last performances with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus … » Read

Jessica Munch-Dittmar  [pictured] is the new executive director of the Fayetteville (NC) Symphony Orchestra (FSO), arriving at the same time as Music Director Stefan Sanders has announced his intention to exit at the end of 2025-26, after … » Read

A case of the summer flu caused tenor Piotr Beczala to withdraw from the concluding performance of Lohengrin at Bayreuth on Aug. 9 as well as his appearance in Carmen at Verona five days later. Klaus Florian Vogt filled the title role at … » Read

The Portland (OR) Opera has promoted composer/conductor/bass-baritone Damien Geter from artistic advisor and interim music director to music director. The Chicago-based Geter is composer-in-residence at the Richmond Symphony; his most recent … » Read