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Updated May 22, 2026

Industry News

Lyric Opera of Chicago Gets $20M

The Negaunee Foundation will bestow $20 million on the Lyric Opera of Chicago, half of it to endow education, half of it to guarantee a Mozart opera will be staged every season, including the Da … »Read

Industry News

Those Fellowships Aren't Working; Time for a Rethink

The Black Orchestral Network (BON) released the third in a series of biennial “Dear American Orchestras” letters on May 19, calling on American orchestras and funders to fundamentally … »Read

People in the News

Adès Gets His First Official Conducting Title

Composer Thomas Adès has long been known to conduct when his own works are on a program, but he has never held a formal conducting title. That will change in September when he becomes … »Read

Industry News

Orchestra : Community—The New Dialogue

The orchestral world in North America is undergoing a sea change that seems certain to usher in consequential transformations of purpose and cultural expectations. There are more than 2,000 … »Read

People in the News

San Francisco Symphony Makes the Right Choice

From her inaugural performances in 2022 and fall 2023, Elim Chan and the San Franciso Symphony appear to have connected with a jolt, with Chronicle critic Joshua Kosman declaring the 5- … »Read

Reviews

The Unmitigated Horror
of Requiem for America

LONDON—With celebrations of American culture going on all around the world, it’s perhaps surprising that composer Brent Michael Davids’s Requiem for America should receive its … »Read

Reviews

A Stark Vanessa Stripped of Its Core

Heartbeat Opera, known for its streamlined, freewheeling mountings of familiar works, has swerved somewhat into esoteric territory in its current production of Vanessa . Although the 1958 Samuel … »Read

Industry News

Rare Holocaust Songbook Gets English Translation

After more than a decade of international research led by academics at the University of Sydney, Mima’amakim ( Out of the Depths ) has been translated and published in English for the first … »Read

People in the News

Nashville Symphony Taps Associate Conductor

Valery Saul is to be the Nashville Symphony’s associate conductor for the next three years as of September. She succeeds Nathan Aspinwall.   Saul, whose tenure coincides with Leonard … »Read

Industry News

Why the Met Needed the Saudis

The prospect of an agreement with the Kingdon of Saudi Arabia that would provide the Metropolitan Opera with as much as $200 million for performing at the new opera house in Riyadh “was not … »Read
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Each month, Musical America spotlights an important emerging talent. If you haven't heard of the New Artist of the Month before, we predict you will soon.


Élisabeth Pion, pianist
New Artist of the Month
May 2026
Theodore Platt, baritone
New Artist of the Month
April 2026
Hannah De Priest, soprano
New Artist of the Month
March 2026
Ruth Knight, director
New Artist of the Month
February 2026
Chelsea Lehnea, soprano
New Artist of the Month
January 2026
Iván López Reynoso, conductor
New Artist of the Month
December 2025
Hongni Wu, mezzo-soprano
New Artist of the Month
November 2025
Emma Wernig, viola
New Artist of the Month
October 2025
Cadie J. Bryan, soprano
New Artist of the Month
September 2025
Wendy Waszut-Barrett, designer
New Artist of the Month
August 2025
Oliver Talukder, oboist
New Artist of the Month
July 2025
Katharina Wincor, conductor
New Artist of the Month
June 2025

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