Yo-Yo Ma added the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Gold Medal to his ever-expanding trove of trophies on November 2, prior to his recital with pianist Kathryn Stott at the Barbican in London. When making the presentation, RPS Chair Angela Dixon … » Read

In 2014, the Canadian/Israeli Azrieli Foundation launched the Azrieli Music Prize, a biannual competition to foster music composition. This year, the focus was on choral music and, at its tenth-anniversary gala on Oct. 28 in Montreal’s … » Read

Benedikt Fohr, CEO of the Hong Kong Philharmonic since April 2019 , will leave the orchestra in July 2025, following the current season. Fohr pointed to the orchestra’s return to live performance after the pandemic , the celebration of its … » Read

The San Francisco Opera has reached a short-term agreement with its orchestra musicians guaranteeing that the current season will continue without interruption through next May 31. A temporary extension had expired on Oct. 31. Under the new … » Read

The No Name Pops, which came into existence in 2023 as a successor to the defunct Philly Pops, wil now be able to use its original name. On Oct. 31 the family of Peter Nero, who led the Philly Pops from its early days in 1979 until 2013, gifted … » Read

Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic Thriller album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, and … » Read

Washington National Opera’s new Fidelio offers few surprises to anyone acquainted with director Francesca Zambello’s penchant for mild revisionism, or with recent stagings of the work elsewhere. As in the Met’s Jürgen Flimm … » Read

On Oct. 30 the annual meeting of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association presented a cavalcade of good news. In a season that included landmark performances of the orchestra, with Riccardo Muti, music director emeritus for life, in Chicago, at … » Read

PARIS (AFP)--The historic opera house of the Paris Opera, the Palais Garnier, is to close its doors from mid-2027 for a two-year renovation, the Opera said. The closure of the almost 150-year-old edifice, one of the architectural jewels of Paris, … » 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