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Updated Jul 26, 2024

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Music Festival Gets Landmark $3.7M Bequest

The Bowdoin International Music Festival, currently underway in its 60 th -anniversary season (June 22 to August 3), has announced a $3.7 million bequest from Patricia Crawford Brown, a longtime … »Read

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Linc Inc Festival O's ''Genial'' Environmental Launch

Mostly Mozart is gone, but its orchestra lives on. It has returned as the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, which made its official debut on July 23—the start of three-week residency (12 … »Read

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Smart Opera Co. Extends Savvy Director

The Detroit Opera has extended the contract of Yuval Sharon as artistic director through the 2027/28 season. Since his arrival in 2020 , Sharon has elevated the company’s national profile … »Read

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Cellists, Coming and Going

The Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) has appointed Hyung Suk Bae [pictured] as principal cello, moving up a notch from his position as associate. Appointed in 2018, he has been leading the … »Read

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Schoenberg and Zemlinsky Headline a Prom of Substance

LONDON—Every year, the program for the BBC Proms seems to trigger an acrimonious debate. Are the powers that be dumbing down? Where’s the risk taking? And in the case of this … »Read

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Orchestre Classique de Montréal Fires Music Director

Tuesday, the Orchestre Classique de Montréal announced the departure of Jacques Lacombe as artistic director and principal conductor, after one year of his five-year contract. … »Read

People in the News

Former Punk Rocker, Songwriter to Run New Dept at IU

The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University is expanding its audio engineering and sound production degree track—in place since 1982—with a "music creation" track to form a new BS … »Read

People in the News

One of Britain's Finest: Underrated, Overlooked

Frank Bridge deserves better, argues Simon Heffer in The Telegraph , than to be remembered only as Benjamin Britten’s teacher. Born in Brighton in 1879, Bridge learned the violin, playing in … »Read

Industry News

AFM Officially Endorses Kamala Harris

It’s hardly a surprise, but AFM Local 802 President Sara Cutler [pictured] has issued a statement representing New York musicians' endorsement of Kamala Harris for president of the U.S., … »Read

People in the News

John Eliot Gardiner Exits Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra

Eleven months after an incident that shocked the classical music world , Sir John Eliot Gardiner today announced he was immediately stepping down as leader and artistic director of the Monteverdi … »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.


Edmund Danon, baritone
New Artist of the Month
July 2024
Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
New Artist of the Month
June 2024
Ian Niederhoffer, conductor
New Artist of the Month
May 2024
~Nois Saxophone Quartet
New Artists of the Month
April 2024
Sarah Saviet, violinist
New Artist of the Month
March 2024
Sarah Dufresne, soprano
New Artist of the Month
February 2024
Ben Goldscheider, horn player
New Artist of the Month
January 2024
William Thomas, bass
New Artist of the Month
December 2023
Jonas Frølund, clarinetist
New Artist of the Month
November 2023
Stephanie Childress, conductor
New Artist of the Month
October 2023
Lee Reynolds, conductor
New Artist of the Month
September 2023
Hillary Simms, trombonist
New Artist of the Month
August 2023

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