The Cincinnati Symphony has a number of new players arriving this season as it capitalizes on a 2015 campaign to fund 14 endowed chairs and bring the orchestra back up to its full complement of 90 players. It is now at 87 and auditions are … » Read

Toronto’s Luminato Festival has tapped Naomi Campbell as its new artistic director, succeeding Josephine Ridge after just two years. Campbell has worked at Luminato since 2011, starting as company manager (2011) and successively becoming … » Read

The principal oboe of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has filed a sexual harassment complaint against the orchestra with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), for failing to act on her complaints of harassment and retaliation … » Read

Russian conductor Andrey Boreyko [pictured], music director for Artis—Naples (FL), is to be music director of the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra as of 2019-20. He’ll take the title of designate in August and September, 2019, … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra has suspended principal trombone Massimo La Rosa, 43, “as part of an ongoing independent investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct,” according to the orchestra's statement. The investigation began in … » Read

New York Philharmonic principal oboe Liang Wang [pictured] and associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey have been suspended from their jobs. The orchestra is delaying their firing at the request of the musicians union, according to The New York … » Read