The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has hired Nikolai Song, 24, acting principal flute of Switzerland’s Berner Symphony Orchestra, as its principal with immediate effect. He succeeds Lorna McGhee who left last June to take the same job … » Read

Four musicians have joined the ASO recently: Ruoying Pan, assistant concertmaster [pictured]; Jake Darnell, principal timpani; Patrick Miller, viola; and Charles Zandieh, cello. Winner of several competitions, Ruoying Pan is currently completing … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Pene Pati was cautioned as a 20-year-old not to pursue a singing career , an unusual occupation for a Samoan who grew up in New Zealand “Lots of people want to become a singer because they want the lifestyle,” … » Read

Hilary Hahn, who recently returned to the concert hall in robust health, was to have performed with cellist Seth Parker Woods the premiere of Carlos Simon’s Double Concerto Suite with the National Symphony Orchestra March 12-14 at Kennedy … » Read

Jaime Martín will conclude his tenure as the ensemble’s sixth music director at the conclusion of the 2026-27 season. He started as music director designate in 2018; as of 2027-28 he will take the title of music director laureate. … » Read

Oklhoma City University(OCU) has selected Julia Montag as the next dean of the Wanda L. Bass School of Music and the School of Theatre. She takes over leadership duties from W. Jerome Stevenson, who has been serving in an interim capacity since … » Read

German conductor Helmuth Rilling, who for more than six decades was one of the 20 th and early 21 st century’s most compelling interpreters of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sacred music, died on Feb. 11 at age 92 in his native Germany. Born … » Read

Next fall, the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in Macon, GA, will welcome a new artistic director and two new faculty members. Violist Emily Brandenburg will succeed her former teacher, Amy Schwartz Moretti, in the top … » Read

André de Ridder does not formally  become music director of English National Opera until 2027, but the 54-year-old Berliner is already at work as the company grapples with its bifurcated existence in London and Manchester. The post … » Read

Violinist Augustin Hadelich has been named artistic partner of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, effective in 2027, the start of the MCO’s 30 th anniversary season. He is to be involved in a “multi-year project” set to be disclosed … » Read