The highlight of the February Masters Week sale at Sotheby’s in New York will undoubtedly be the auction of the Joachim-Ma Stradivarius. Crafted by Antonio Stradivari in 1714, the instrument epitomizes the famous luthier’s … » Read

Houston Symphony principal trombone Nick Platoff is to succeed Allen Barnill, onetime principal trombone of the same orchestra, as chair of brass and associate professor at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Platoff—who … » Read

A new report by Will Page, the former chief economist at Spotify, finds that for the first time the value of global music copyright, pegged at $45.5bn in 2023, exceeded the $33.2bn generated by the cinema box office. Page’s calculation … » Read

Matías Tarnopolsky’s January 1 move to New York, effective rather soon in the world of major executive maneuvers, appears to have been long anticipated by his soon-to-be-former colleagues in Philadelphia. Ryan Fleur, current … » Read

The University of Louisville has selected English composer Christian Mason [pictured] as the recipient of the 2025 Grawemeyer Music Composition Award for Invisible Threads . Composed in 2022-2023 and premiered at the Wittener Tage für Neue … » Read

LOS ANGELES—Since her death eight years ago last month, Pauline Oliveros has been proving her relevance from one crisis to the next. Global performances via Zoom of her group-based work The Tuning Meditation , perhaps the best-known of this … » Read

Andrea Battistoni is to be the new music director of the Teatro Regio di Torino, beginning January 1, 2025 for a term of two years. The 37-year-old native of Verona will be responsible for conducting two operas and several orchestra concerts each … » Read

Dickon Stainer, chairman of Universal Music Group’s Global Classics & Jazz (GCJ) division, has announced two major personnel moves. Clemens Trautmann [pictured], president of Deutsche Grammophon for the past nine years, will immediately … » Read

In a much-anticipated move, the New York Philharmonic has announced Matías Tarnopolsky as its next president and CEO as of January 1, 2025. Tarnopolsky, 54, currently holds the same position with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble … » Read

There is a widely held (if not often proclaimed) view by those who know his operas well that Die Frau ohne Schatten ( The Woman Without a Shadow ) is Richard Strauss’s greatest opera. Its emphasis on the moral imperative of bringing … » Read