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Updated May 12, 2025

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La Scala's Next Music Director

South Korean conductor Myung-Whun Chung has been announced to succeed Riccardo Chailly as music director of Teatro alla Scala from the end of 2026, when Chailly exits, until 2030.  Chung, 72, … »Read

Industry News

Performing Arts Unions Push Back Against Prez Cuts

Donald Trump’s planned elimination of  federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), and the Corporation for Public … »Read

Reviews

Feats and Feasts at Aix, Part II

It’s an Aix-en-Provence tradition for a major visiting ensemble to perform Bach’s sacred music on Easter Day. They usually opt for one of the great epics; however, this year Easter … »Read

Industry News

NEA-NEH Grants Ambush: The Repercussions

In early May scores of arts organizations received emailed letters informing them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Arts were being terminated because their missions were no … »Read

Contests & Awards

Tucker Award Winners Announced

Bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee is the 2025 winner of the Richard Tucker Award. Selected by conferral rather than audition, the winner receives a $50,000 cash prize as well as the ongoing support … »Read

People in the News

KenCen Prez Calls Out Les Miz Boycotters

The Trump-installed CEO of Kennedy Center is starting his own blacklist. The first names on it will be the ten or so cast members in the Center's run of Les Misérables who have refused to … »Read

Reviews

Rattle, LSO Bring Mr. Broucek to Life

LONDON— The Excursions of Mr. Broucek has long been the sleeper among Janácek’s mature stage works, so it was heartening to see the London Symphony Orchestra include it as part … »Read

Industry News

Storied Opera Fest Marks 75th Anniversary with a New Theater

Opera in the Ozarks, the music festival and opera training program based in Eureka Springs, AR, celebrates its 75 th anniversary this summer. Three mainstage opera productions and a host of … »Read

Reviews

At Carnegie: Giulio Cesare,
by the Experts

The annual semi-staging of a Handel opera by conductor Harry Bicket and the London-based English Concert is a valued Carnegie Hall tradition dating from 2013. Giulio Cesare, on May 4, was the … »Read

People in the News

Juilliard Names New Dance Dean

The Juilliard School has selected Melissa Toogood as the new dean and director of its dance division, beginning July 1. She succeeds Alicia Graf Mack, who is to become the artistic director of … »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.


Catharine Woodward, soprano
New Artist of the Month
May 2025
Abigail Raiford, soprano
New Artist of the Month
April 2025
Ashley Jackson, harpist
New Artist of the Month
March 2025
Kari Watson, composer
New Artist of the Month
February 2025
Gabriela Lara, violinist
New Artist of the Month
January 2025
Madeline Apple Healey, soprano
New Artist of the Month
December 2024
Sterling Elliott, cellist
New Artist of the Month
November 2024
Liza Malamut, trombonist
New Artist of the Month
October 2024
Nancy Ives, composer
New Artist of the Month
September 2024
Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor
New Artist of the Month
August 2024
Edmund Danon, baritone
New Artist of the Month
July 2024
Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
New Artist of the Month
June 2024

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Since 1960, each year Musical America honors several outstanding musicians with an award for excellence.
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