Winston-Salem residents Randall “Randy” and Kamalakshi “Kamu” Dishmon have donated more than $10.1 million to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) to establish the American Roots Music Institute. … » Read

As of the current season, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra has seven new members and six “acting” members with longterm contracts. The latter group are filling vacancies, but are not on track to become tenured players in the DSO. Their … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Tenor Rolando Villazón was singing the title role in Massenet’s Werther in 2006 at Nice, France, when he started thinking about how he would direct the opera. “I said, ‘oh, this last act is very … » Read

Andrés Orozco-Estrada will become music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra beginning with the 2026-27 season. The 47-year-old Austrian-Columbian conductor has been a guest on the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s … » Read

CHICHESTER, West Sussex, UK—It is a quarter century since director Harry Christophers first took his vocal group The Sixteen on a Choral Pilgrimage, visiting some of the finest cathedrals in the U.K. He started the group 21 years earlier, … » Read

Cristian Ganicenco, principal trombone and a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) since 1999, died on Oct. 2 after a long battle with cancer. He was 58 A native of Iasi, Romania, he studied there and in Bucharest before emigrating to … » Read

A team of musicologists has discovered two works—a printed song score and the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions—by Henry Purcell. “It’s almost unheard of for something like that to turn up,” Alan … » Read

The world premiere of Timothy Higgins’s  Market Street, 1920s on Oct. 3 by the San Francisco Symphony led The San Francisco Chronicle  critic to describe the work as a collision between “one rather straightlaced theme … » Read

Among a handful of new opera recordings, few labels are as adventurous as BMOP/sound. Working in tandem with Odyssey Opera and Boston Modern Orchestra Project, their latest release is the debut studio recording of Dominick Argento’s gothic … » Read

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO)has bolstered its conducting ranks with two additions. Chinese conductor Jiannan Cheng [pictured] joins as assistant conductor, succeeding Jonathon Taylor Rush, who held the position from 2020 to 2023, before … » Read