As of Sept. 1, 2026, Danish opera creator Louise Beck will begin a four-year term as the new artistic director of the Copenhagen Opera Festival. Beck, who has been scenographer, director, and artistic director of OPE-N (formerly OperaNord) since … » Read

Lyric soprano Hannah De Priest has found her comfort zone. A rising star on the early music scene and a regular guest of the Cleveland-based baroque ensemble Les Délices, she impresses with sheer beauty of sound, plus a host of more subtle … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra (TCO) has named five new players to its violin and viola sections. With these additions, Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, now in his 24 th year, will have appointed more than half of the orchestra. In May Elizabeth … » Read

Yuja Wang, superwoman of the keyboard, has accused Norman Lebrecht, classical music commentator known for breaking news, much of it editorialized, of “derogatory misogynistic bullying.” Lebrecht had been trying for over a year to … » Read

Joshua Robison, longtime partner, manager, adviser and facilitator for Michael Tilson Thomas, died on February 22. He passed away in his sleep at his apartment in San Francisco. He had sustained a fall last August and was in the process of … » Read

Beginning in the fall of 2027, Stephen Wyrczynski and Ori Kam will join Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music as professors of viola following an international search. They will succeed James Dunham and Ivo-Jan van der Werff, who are … » Read

The Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) is strengthening its cello faculty with the addition next fall of Tom Landschoot and Jeffrey Noel Lastrapes. Landschoot joins CIM from Arizona State University, succeeding Melissa Kraut, who departed at the … » Read

Benjamin (Ben) K. Rowe is to step down from the Heifetz international Music Institute after 12 years, ten of them as president and CEO. He exits on September 30, the close of the Institute’s 30 th - anniversary season, and will take the … » Read

The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival (GLCMF), which this year runs from June 14-27, will bid farewell at the end of the season to Artistic Director Paul Watkins. The longtime cellist of the late, great, Emerson String Quartet, Watkins exits … » Read

Michael Haefliger, who stepped down last summer after 26 years as artistic and executive director of the Lucerne Festival, has signed on as artistic advisor to Japan’s Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy & Festival, coming up on … » Read