Kate Sheeran, provost and dean of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 2015, is to become executive director of Manhattan’s Kaufman Music Center in August. She succeeds Lydia Kontos, who announced her intent to retire last fall. … » Read

On Thursday, June 21, Rider University completed the sale, first announced in late February , of the Westminster Choir College in Princeton. The purchaser, the Beijing Kaiwen Education Technology Co. Ltd., is paying $40 million. Kaiwen has … » Read

NEW YORK—Organizers of last Monday night’s concert could hardly have anticipated how very timely their program would be. On June 18 in Merkin Hall, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC) and the Yale Choral Artists … » Read

The 2018 Montreal International Music Competition concluded on June 14 with prizes in two categories: aria and art song. John Brancy [pictured], a 29-year-old American baritone who has studied at Juilliard, won first prize in the art song … » Read

The Miami City Ballet has appointed Tania Castroverde Moskalenko [pictured] to be its next executive director. She arrives on August 7 and will work in conjunction Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez .   Castroverde Moskalenko, who … » Read

Contralto Avery Amereau [pictured] has left IMG Artists to join Askonas Holt. Amereau, known to specialize in baroque repertoire, studied at the Juilliard School and made her Met Opera debut two seasons ago, at age 25, as the Madrigal Singer in … » Read