LONDON (AP) — Hans Zimmer, the two-time Academy Award-winning composer, proposed to his partner on stage in London, prompting raucous applause from the audience. As his performance at the O2 arena was drawing to a close Thursday evening, … » Read

The Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, aka the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra, has named Christoph Gedschold to be its next chief conductor, effective with the 2024-2025 season and succeeding Toshiyuki Kamioka, in the job from 2016-2022. Gedschold, … » Read

Kristian Sallinen , a Finnish viola virtuoso on the fast track to becoming his country’s next wunderkind, has signed as a conductor with HarrisonParrott for worldwide general management. Currently studying orchestral conducting with Sakari … » Read

The Houston-born conductor Garrett Keast initially kept his American background under wraps when he first moved to Berlin in 2011. But when the pandemic cancelled his conducting gigs, he elected to go all-in on his connection to his homeland and … » Read

Conductor Elim Chan has been on an upward trajectory ever since becoming the first woman to win the London Symphony Orchestra’s Donatalla Flick Competition back in 2014, serving as the LSO’s assistant conductor under Gergiev for the … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—Jonelle Procope’s 20-year tenure as president and CEO of The Apollo Theater evolved into an era of prosperity and expansion, markedly different from the tumultuous, cash-strapped decades that preceded it. Sure, the early … » Read

For the past five years, cellist Yo-Yo Ma has performed J.S. Bach’s six unaccompanied cello suites in 36 countries on six continents. His Bach Project has been one of the celebrated musician’s most ambitious efforts yet to use his … » Read

One week out from the start of its summer season at the Metropolitan Opera, the American Ballet Theatre has announced the surprise resignation of its CEO and Executive Director Janet Rollé. She exits, immediately, after just 18 months in … » Read

During the pandemic, a two-month series of almost nightly solo recitals from his Berlin studio made pianist Igor Levit one of the most visible musicians on Twitter. During a conversation with the San Francisco Chronicle, the Russian-born artist … » Read

Greek composer Yannis Markopoulos, known for incorporating traditional Greek instruments into the classical orchestra—"return to the roots,” as he called it—has died in Athens at the age of 84. He had been suffering from cancer … » Read