In late March 2024 John Kilkenny will join the New York Youth Symphony (NYYS) as executive director, succeeding Shauna Quill, who was in the position for 12 years. Kilkenny joins the NYYS from the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera and the Sewanee … » Read

The Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) has announced several new appointments to its artistic leadership team, chief among which is Nina Yoshida Nelsen as artistic director. She succeeds Esther Nelson, who until March 2021 held the position of general and … » Read

LONDON—The Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Artists Program is outstandingly good when it comes to raising an up-and-coming singer’s profile. Take 29-year-old Canadian soprano Sarah Dufresne, now in her second year. Over two … » Read

Marie Jacquot is to succeed Cristian Macelaru as chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra as of the 2026-27 season. The Paris-born Jacquot, 33, is principal guest conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and designated chief conductor of … » Read

The personnel changes at the Cincinnati May Festival continue, parallel with the departure of Louis Langrée as music director of the May Festival’s mothership, the Cincinnati Symphony. Robert Porco announced last year that the 2024 … » Read

German-Japanese conductor Jun Märkl—music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, principal guest of the Oregon Symphony, and recently named chief conductor of the Residentie Orkest—will add the Indianapolis … » Read

French pianist/conductor Victorien Vanoosten is the new music director of the Toulon (FR) Opera, effective next month. The post has been vacant since the exit of Jurjen Hempel in 2021, with Marzena Diakun and Valério Galli serving as … » Read

After a six-year period of turmoil, the Oregon Bach Festival OBF) is on the verge of re-establishing stable artistic leadership. The sad saga of one of the nation’s premier celebrations of the music of Bach and those he influenced began in … » Read

Krzysztof Urbanski has been named music director of the Warsaw Philharmonic. His five-year contract begins at the start of the 2024-25 season and extends for five years. He succeeds Andrzej Boreyko, in the post since 2019. The 41-year-old … » Read

Peter Schickele, better known for his “discovery” of P.D.Q. Bach than for his serious compositions under his own name, died on Jan. 16 at age 88. Schickele first introduced the public to the works of P.D.Q. Bach—"the last and by … » Read