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HKPO Adds Experienced Exec

August 27, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Arriving in the fall to strengthen the administrative leadership of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HKPO) is Patrick Ren, current managing director of China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Orchestra, a job he has held … » Read
 

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New Ass't Conductor, Pacific Symphony

August 27, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Pola Benke, Polish-born cellist and conductor, is the new assistant conductor of the Pacific Symphony. Recently appointed music director of the Santa Monica Orchestra, Benke is also assistant conductor of the Long Beach Symphony and the Riverside … » Read
 

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KenCen Hires Anti-woke Terpsichorean

August 27, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
On Aug. 25, within days of firing the three members of its dance programming team , the Kennedy Center named Stephen Nakagawa as the program’s new director. A former dancer with the Washington Ballet, Nakagawa possesses the quality … » Read
 

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Why ICE Nabbed That Utah Violinist

August 27, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
When agents for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained violinist John Shin in Salt Lake City on Aug. 18, he had no more than a 30-second phone call to let his wife DaNae Snow know what was happening. Unable to tell her why he … » Read
 

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John Williams Doesn't Like Film Music

August 26, 2025 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
Despite winning five Oscars and receiving 54 nominations for his motion picture scores, John Williams has confessed to a biographer, “I never liked film music very much.” Other than an occasional eight-minute stretch, he continues, it … » Read
 

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Lynn Conservatory of Music Dean to Exit

August 26, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Lynn University Conservatory of Music has announced the impending retirement of Jon Robertson as its dean after two decades in the job. A pianist and conductor, Robertson will exit at the end of the current academic year. The  onetime … » Read
 

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Hilary Hahn Cancels Dates

August 26, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Violin virtuoso Hilary Hahn has had to cancel concerts on her current and fall schedules; the double pinched nerve that kept her off the stage for seven months last year, until February , has returned. She was to perform the Dvorak Concerto at … » Read
 

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New Exec Director for PCO

August 25, 2025 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
The Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1990 as the first professional chamber ensemble in middle PA, has a new executive director. She is Caitlin Martinkus, professor of music theory at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and she succeeds … » Read
 

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Teddy Re-ups in Louisville

August 25, 2025 | Sarah Shay, Musical America
The Louisville Orchestra has extended Teddy Abrams’s tenure as music director for three years, through the 2027-28 season. He joined the ensemble as music director designate in 2013. “Teddy’s leadership has transformed the … » Read
 

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Kiril Petrenko Wins Sonning Prize

August 25, 2025 | Anthony Brown, Musical America
Kirill Petrenko, chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, will receive the 2026 Léonie Sonning Music Prize, Denmark’s largest music prize, at a gala concert in the Copenhagen Concert Hall on June 13, 2026. He will conduct the … » Read
 
 

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