NEW YORK — Yannick Nezet-Seguin took the rare step of bringing the entire orchestra on stage for curtain calls following his first performance as just the third music director in the Metropolitan Opera's 135-year-history. The 43-year-old … » Read

Paul Lewis has stepped down as co-artistic director of the Leeds International Piano Competition after not quite three years in the job. His colleague Adam Gatehouse, also a three-year exec, is now the sole artistic director. The duo arrived … » Read

As Westminster Choir College alumni fight a  takeover of their alma mater by a firm controlled by the Chinese government, the Juilliard School prepares to be the first U.S. music conservatory to open in Tianjin. In fact, the Tianjin … » Read

The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) has appointed the first lecturer in musicians’ health and well-being in a U.K. conservatory. Beginning in January Sara Ascenso, a clinical psychologist and pianist, will lecture, conduct research, … » Read

The final outcome of the ongoing Westminster Choir College-for-sale-to-China debate is anybody’s guess, but NPR provides a fairly comprehensive description of the predicament and the players. The story so far is that Rider University, which … » Read

For three nights in early December, the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, located on 9 th Avenue in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, will host Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors . First produced for television in 1951, the … » Read

Things are looking up for the Hartford (CT) Symphony Orchestra, which three years ago faced near extinction until the musicians accepted a substantial pay cut . The orchestra also appointed its own executive director in Stephen Collins , giving … » Read

DETROIT — Patricia Hall went to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in 2016 hoping to learn more about the music performed by prisoners in World War II death camps. The University of Michigan music theory professor heard there were manuscripts, … » Read

MIT has received what it characterizes as a “cornerstone gift” to build a new state-of-the-art music facility. Its centerpiece is to be a “purpose-built performance lab” for experimental and unusual projects, with flexible … » Read

Michael Bloomberg’s extraordinary  gift of $1.8 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, will benefit the school’s conservatory, the Peabody Institute of Music, to the tune of $50 million. In a letter addressed to the … » Read