For the first time in its 87-year history, the Louisville Orchestra has received a Grammy Award, winning for The American Project in the Best Classical Instrument Solo category. The original composition, by the orchestra’s music director … » Read

The past year ended on a much happier note for the BBC Singers than it began. In early March the BBC announced that the choral group would be disbanded in order to enable the media giant to invest “more widely in the future of choral … » Read

The Tom Wilhelmsen Foundation has made a NOK 10 million ($960,000) gift to the Queen Sonja Singing Competition. Established in 1988, the biennial Norwegian competition provides an arena for aspiring singers from Norway and around the world to … » Read

Capping its annual conference, titled this year “Amplify,” the Sphinx Organization presented the finals of its senior division competition on January 27 in Detroit’s Fisher Music Center. Taking the $50,000 Robert Frederick … » Read

The sudden death last November of Franz Xaver Ohnesorg , the jury chairman-designate for the 16 th Concours Géza Anda 2024, has led to the appointment of Rico Gulda, pianist and head of artistic planning at the Vienna Konzerthaus, as the … » Read

On January 19, following his recital of Brahms’s complete late piano works, Russian-born German pianist Igor Levit, 36, became the youngest artist ever to receive the Wigmore Hall Medal. Since making his debut at age 13 at Great … » Read

Last night, on the stage of David Geffen, formerly Avery Fisher, Hall, violinist Hilary Hahn was awarded the $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize in recognition of her outstanding artistic achievement and leadership in classical music. The award, … » Read

Four finalists took the stage at the Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland on Dec. 3 seeking first prize in the 4 th International Krzysztof Penderecki Cello Competition . Twenty-five-year-old Vilém Vlcek from the Czech Republic … » Read

Aleksandra Vrebalov, 53, has won the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for Missa Supratext (“Mass Above Words”), for string quartet and girls’ chorus, with limited percussion. The 22-minute … » Read

Long Beach Opera, an ambitious and occasionally audacious opera company with an annual operating budget of about $2 million, has received $1.25M from the estate of late (d. 2021) board member Carol Richards, the largest single gift in the … » Read