NEWS
Updated Mar 21, 2025
Standard Rep Dominates SFS Season
The San Francisco Symphony’s 2025-26 season features 26 weeks of music with 23 different conductors. Notably absent, from even one program, is the current music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, … »Read
Celebrity Musician, Philanthropist Feted by Gould Foundation
The Glenn Gould Prize, bestowed biennially by the Foundation of the same name, has been awarded to singer/songwriter/philanthropist/activist Elton John, of a different musical bent than the … »Read
Pittsburgh Symphony Taps Senior VP
Monica Meyer Beale, recent VP of advancement for the Milwaukee Symphony, is to join the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) as senior VP and chief development officer next month. She succeeds Mary … »Read
The Conundrum of Staging Butterfly
Opera is an endangered art form. Increasingly expensive to mount and facing dwindling audiences, it struggles to gain traction with patrons new to or unfamiliar with the genre, who can fine … »Read
Tapestry Opera Gets a New Performance Space
The opening of the Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Center in Toronto, a joint initiative by Tapestry Opera, Nightwood Theater, and St. Clare’s Housing, is intended to offset the … »Read
The Definitive Steve Reich—27 Discs' Worth
Nonesuch Records has championed Steve Reich for four decades with a slew of first recordings, many of them definitive. They form the bedrock of a 27-disc set of Reich’s “Collected … »Read
Noseda Renews in Washington, DC
In a rare sign of stability in the recent life of the Kennedy Center, Gianandrea Noseda has extended his contract as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra through its centennial … »Read
UC Berkeley Gets an Intimate New Recital Hall
Until recently, the only on-campus performance venue available to music students at UC-Berkeley was the 678-seat Hertz Theater, a space that too often left student performers feeling overwhelmed … »Read
Letter from Sir András Schiff
Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Music Lovers: Due to the recent and unprecedented political changes in the United States, I feel morally obligated to withdraw from all engagements in the U.S. for … »Read
Jacksonville Symphony Gets $15M
The Jacksonville Symphony clearly has some well-heeled supporters. Adding to the recent $8 million donated in the October-January time span, the orchestra just announced another $15 million from … »Read
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Chloë Dickens and the Alegría Ensemble to Premiere New Work by Edward Smaldone
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Distinguished Conductor And Clarinetist Charles Neidich To Inaugurate WA Sinfonietta, March 23, 2025
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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.
Ashley Jackson, harpist
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Kari Watson, composer
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Gabriela Lara, violinist
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Madeline Apple Healey, soprano
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December 2024
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Sterling Elliott, cellist
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November 2024
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Liza Malamut, trombonist
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Nancy Ives, composer
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Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor
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Edmund Danon, baritone
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Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
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Ian Niederhoffer, conductor
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~Nois Saxophone Quartet
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