The Cleveland Orchestra (TCO) has named five new players to its violin and viola sections. With these additions, Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, now in his 24 th year, will have appointed more than half of the orchestra. In May Elizabeth … » Read

Yuja Wang, superwoman of the keyboard, has accused Norman Lebrecht, classical music commentator known for breaking news, much of it editorialized, of “derogatory misogynistic bullying.” Lebrecht had been trying for over a year to … » Read

Joshua Robison, longtime partner, manager, adviser and facilitator for Michael Tilson Thomas, died on February 22. He passed away in his sleep at his apartment in San Francisco. He had sustained a fall last August and was in the process of … » Read

Beginning in the fall of 2027, Stephen Wyrczynski and Ori Kam will join Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music as professors of viola following an international search. They will succeed James Dunham and Ivo-Jan van der Werff, who are … » Read

The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival (GLCMF), which this year runs from June 14-27, will bid farewell at the end of the season to Artistic Director Paul Watkins. The longtime cellist of the late, great, Emerson String Quartet, Watkins exits … » Read

Benjamin (Ben) K. Rowe is to step down from the Heifetz international Music Institute after 12 years, ten of them as president and CEO. He exits on September 30, the close of the Institute’s 30 th - anniversary season, and will take the … » Read

The Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) is strengthening its cello faculty with the addition next fall of Tom Landschoot and Jeffrey Noel Lastrapes. Landschoot joins CIM from Arizona State University, succeeding Melissa Kraut, who departed at the … » Read

Devyani Saltzman, director of arts and participation at London’s Barbican Centre since February 2024, is leaving the institution just months after announcing a five-year creative vision for the venue. When she will leave is unclear; … » Read

Ron Savage, vice president and executive director af Berklee College of Music, is the school's new interim provost, or chief academic officer. He succeeds David Bogen, who exited last year after serving as interim president until Jim Lucchese … » Read

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) has named Keelin Davis as the new associate dean and executive director of Pre-College and Continuing Education (PCCE). Davis joined the conservatory staff seven years ago as program manager in PCCE, … » Read