Lynn University Conservatory of Music has announced the impending retirement of Jon Robertson as its dean after two decades in the job. A pianist and conductor, Robertson will exit at the end of the current academic year. The  onetime … » Read

Violin virtuoso Hilary Hahn has had to cancel concerts on her current and fall schedules; the double pinched nerve that kept her off the stage for seven months last year, until February , has returned. She was to perform the Dvorak Concerto at … » Read

The Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1990 as the first professional chamber ensemble in middle PA, has a new executive director. She is Caitlin Martinkus, professor of music theory at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and she succeeds … » Read

The Louisville Orchestra has extended Teddy Abrams’s tenure as music director for three years, through the 2027-28 season. He joined the ensemble as music director designate in 2013. “Teddy’s leadership has transformed the … » Read

Kirill Petrenko, chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, will receive the 2026 Léonie Sonning Music Prize, Denmark’s largest music prize, at a gala concert in the Copenhagen Concert Hall on June 13, 2026. He will conduct the … » Read

Austrian businessman Bernhard Fleischer, founder and owner of Bernard Fleischer Moving Images (BFMI), is to be the next CEO of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. BFMI has recorded hundreds of international classical music and dance performances, artist … » Read

University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has 25 new faculty members arriving for the 2025–26 school year, including 12 full-time and 13 adjunct and visiting, in the Schools of  Dance, Design and Production, Drama, … » Read

Chicago Sinfonietta section cellist Lindsey Sharpe will move into the principal chair this season, succeeding the orchestra’s founding principal cello Ann Griffin, who moves to coprincipal. Sharpe has been for the last four years a … » Read

The American Brass Quintet (ABQ) has announced the departure of Kevin Cobb, one of its two trumpeters and in the group since 1998, and the arrival of Tiago Linck to succeed him. Linck, who is from Brazil and as such becomes the ABQ’s first … » Read

Theresa Bogard [pictured], professor of music and keyboard coordinator at the University of Wyoming (UW), has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to teach and conduct research on Brazilian women composers during the 2025-26 academic year. … » Read