Cantus, a lower voice (TTBB), full-time, a cappella octet based in Minneapolis, has appointed Shelley Quiala as its next executive director. She has for the past four years held the same post with the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in … » Read

Birth order is what initially led Sterling Elliott to the cello. His mother, Dannielle Weems-Elliott, began teaching his two older siblings at a young age, emulating the method she herself had learned as a Suzuki violin student. Sterling watched … » Read

Carl St. Clair, who joined the Pacific Symphony in 1990 (and coyly suggests this will be his last year as music director ), can now lay claim to being the longest-tenured American-born conductor of a major U.S. orchestra. When he arrived, he … » Read

Limor Tomer, general manager of Live Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the last 13 years, is to be the new VP of programming and production at Orange County’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts as of January 2025. She succeeds Judy … » Read

Blake-Anthony Johnson, who has brought the Chicago Sinfonietta to national prominence during his five years as president and CEO, is stepping down to be CEO of the 50-year-old New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation (NOJHF). He exits Chicago, … » Read

The Cincinnati May Festival, in its second year of a new business model that appoints a new director every season, has announced Renée Fleming for that position as of its next edition, the weekends of May 16 and 22. Fleming, whose exit … » Read

Ken-David Masur will step down as music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) at the end of the 2025-2026 season, after seven years in the position. The 47-year-old maestro arrived in Milwaukee at the start of the 2019-2020 season … » Read

More than a decade after a 2011 accident in which she was injured in a fall from a platform at the Metropolitan Opera, mezzo-soprano Wendy White and the company have reached an agreement on the eve of her lawsuit going to trial. While singing the … » Read

In 2019 Lara St. John spoke to the Philadelphia Inquirer about how, as a 14-year-old student at the Curtis Institute in the mid-1980s, her teacher, famed violinist Jascha Brodsky, raped and sexually abused her. The school’s failure to … » Read

Music Masters has selected Stuart Mason as the new chair of its board of trustees, on which he has served since 2021. He succeeds Simon Freakley, who held the position for twelve years. Mason is joined on the board by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason; … » Read