On Jan. 6 the Chinese classical music licensing, subscription, and education services company Kuke Music Holding announced terms for its IPO (initial public offering). In 2019, the Beijing-based company, founded in 2017, was China’s largest … » Read

Choirs may be silenced for the near future by the pandemic, but there is some light at the end of the tunnel—far off though it may be. In July of 2024, choirs from around the world are scheduled to arrive in Auckland, New Zealand for the 13 … » Read

Things tend to be big in Texas, and that includes the concert halls that host the major orchestras. The Houston Symphony plays in a 2,900-seat house, and both the Fort Worth and Dallas symphonies perform in venues that seat more than 2,000. … » Read

The Recording Grammy, forced to  postpone the Grammy Awards scheduled for January 31, 2021 in Los Angeles, due to the spread of Covid-19, has chosen to move the event to March 14th. That’s also the date of the SAG-AFTRA awards, another … » Read

Conciliatory feeling seems altogether absent in the standoff between management and labor at the Metropolitan Opera. With the stagehands locked out since early December, the latest flashpoint revolves around the employment of non-Met musicians to … » Read

The Dutch National Opera & Ballet (DNOB) has named Stijn Schoonderwoerd as general director, effective Feb. 1. He succeeds Els van der Plas, who has held the position since 2012. Schoonderwoerd joins with Sophie de Lint, director of Dutch … » Read

Rolling Stone has confirmed that the Grammy Awards will not happen as scheduled, on January 31 st . Although it is only the pop winners that are announced on TV—probably remotely this year, as was the case with the Emmy Awards-- the Grammy … » Read

We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is … » Read

The Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s concert took place as scheduled, pre-recorded in an empty Musikverein under Riccardo Muti. Normally, some 50,000 people apply for tickets to attend. This year, the orchestra reports that 7,000 … » Read

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The organizers of an indoor music festival in Barcelona to test the effectiveness of same-day coronavirus screening said Wednesday that preliminary results indicate there was zero transmission inside the venue. The … » Read