The award-winning Honens Festival returns September 5 to 8, 2019 with four days of extraordinary piano and chamber music. Highlight performances include the Miró Quartet (with Calgary native William Fedkenheuer), award-winning Polish piano … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—A New York judge on Tuesday dismissed portions of a lawsuit filed by former Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine against the company last year. Levine was the Met’s music or artistic director from 1976-2016, … » Read

Rider University’s controversial $40 million deal to sell Westminster Choir College to a Chinese company has hit a new hurdle according to opponents of the plan. The latest revelations suggest that the terms of the contract would allow … » Read

DETROIT—The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Interlochen Center for the Arts announced Monday that they would revive the classic DSO summer residency for the first time since 2006. This year’s events, which take place from July 24 to … » Read

CHICAGO–The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has announced the cancellation of a further week of CSOA-presented programs as the ongoing strike by CSO musicians drags on. Concerts from Tuesday, March 26 through to Tuesday, April 2 at … » Read

It’s probably not that he’s short of friends, but irrepressible violinist Ray Chen is adopting a novel approach in his quest for a duo partner this summer, while at the same time aiming to answer the prayers of anyone who has ever … » Read

Music Director Barbara Hannigan and Artistic Director Thomas W. Morris have announced the program for this year’s Ojai Music Festival. Now in its 73 rd year, 2019 will be Morris’s final Festival after 16 years at the helm, a period … » Read

Composers Louis Andriessen and Colin Matthews are among the over 500 signatories to an open letter protesting proposed cuts to the British classical music station BBC Radio 3. The voices urging the U.K.’s national broadcaster to reconsider … » Read

Musicians of the San Francisco S ymphony have announced that they intend to join striking colleagues from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on the picket line should the ongoing labor dispute not be settled by the time they arrive in Chicago on … » Read

As the boundaries among genres continue to fade, so does the Mostly Mozart Festival’s metamorphosis continue from a series of classical music concerts to, basically, anything goes. The 2019 festival, July 20-August 10, is not, in fact … » Read