A recent honor bestowed upon a music professor at Milligan University in Tennessee may carry no international profile but is nonetheless notable for the high impact its recipient has had on a generaton of young musicians. The Arts Alliance … » Read

The Hungarian State Opera (HSO) has chosen 27-year-old Martin Rajna as principal conductor, starting next season, and he didn’t train at the Sibelius Academy, like most recent wunderkinds. Rather, he a graduate of the Ferenc Liszt Academy … » Read

Classical accordion virtuoso Ksenija Sidorova has returned to HarrisonParrott after a quick tenure under a different management. Born in Riga, educated at London’s Royal Academy of Music, she is fluent in repertoire from J.S. Bach to the … » Read

One of Elizabeth Alexander’s earliest artistic memories is of visiting a Degas dancer’s sculpture at The Hirshhorn Museum. “I’d go to after school and visit the one with the tulle skirt that I loved so much,” a … » Read

Catherine Larsen-Maguire, bassoonist-cum-conductor, is to be the music director of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, a newly created position borne of the group's successful performances under her baton. Her term is effective in 2024 for … » Read

As of next fall, the newest member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will also be the youngest. He is 20-year-old Texas native Samuel Watson, arriving next season as contrabassoonist and succeeding Gregg Henegar, who retired in 2022 after 30 years … » Read

The Manchester (VT) Music Festival will have new leadership in place for its 50 th -anniversary season in the summer of 2024. As of October 1, 2023, Philip Setzer, violinist in the soon-to-retire Emerson String Quartet, takes the post of the … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—Yannick Nézet-Séguin is remaking the Metropolitan Opera from the bottom up. When the 48-year-old conductor leans forward to extend his arms and emphasize vibrato or stretches high for a fortissimo during an … » Read

The first time I heard Huang Yi conduct, I barely noticed. The revival of Jin Xiang’s 1987 opera  Savage Land at the 2012 Beijing Music Festival (BMF) had a huge, high-profile Chinese cast, with no spotlight shining on the pit. Three … » Read

The Los Angeles Children’s Chorus , a vast music training program with seven choirs and a number of Grammy wins and nominations to its credit, has brought Kurt J. Swanson on board as interim executive director. He succeeds Andrew Bradford, … » Read