In a private ceremony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic dedicated the Hollywood Bowl’s stage to the legendary composer and conductor John Williams. It is the first such honor bestowed in the Bowl’s history, “Without John Williams, … » Read

Alison Bolton has exited the San Diego Symphony after nine months to join the Jacksonville (FL) Symphony as VP and general manager. She succeeds Blake Schlabach, a onetime professional trombonist who left in August after two years in the job. In … » Read

The League of American Orchestras has a new VP of development in Sarah Generes, current development director at Northwestern Universty's Bienen School of Music. She succeeds Marlah Bonner, who exited the post after about five years last August. … » Read

Oklahoma’s Tulsa Symphony has hired Morgan Walker, current executive director of the Shreveport (LA) Symphony, as its next executive director. She succeeds Ron Predl, who plans to retire next spring after a 13-year run with the orchestra. … » Read

The fourth time proved to be the charm for James Vaughen, recently announced as the new principal trumpet for the Philadelphia Orchestra. The 26-year-old Curtis grad had auditioned three previous times during the orchestra’s protracted … » Read

Valerie Kahler assumed her new role as host of Performance Today this week, as Fred Child, in the job 25 years, stepped down. Heard on hundreds of public radio stations nationwide, Performance Today offers concert recordings, highlights from new … » Read

Former Grant Park Concerts General Manager Richard Bass, whose career as a musician, orchestra manager, artist representative, and nonprofit fundraising executive spanned more than six decades, passed away on October 5, 2025, at the age of 92 in … » Read

Dr. David M. Greenberg will join the University of Rochester’s Eastman Performing Arts Medicine (EPAM), a joint venture of the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, as the … » Read

The Royal Opera’s first-time staging of Janácek’s The Makropulos Case this November represents the swan song for noted director Katie Mitchell, who has announced her retirement from opera “because,” she tells The … » Read

Native New Yorker James Gaffigan, 46, is to be the next music director of the Houston Grand Opera. Patrick Summers, artistic and music director since 1968, announced last year at this time that he would be stepping down at the end of the current … » Read