J azz at Lincoln Center has appointed Tatyana Gershkovich to be its new CFO, succeeding Susan Gordon, who retired last year. Gershkovich is the recent VP and CFO of American Express’s Global Services Group & Enterprise Functions and … » Read

Wagnerian voices take time to mature, and even when they do, the lead roles tend to be monopolized by a handful of established stars. It was therefore both a surprise and a pleasure earlier this year to encounter a fully formed Brünnhilde … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra is updating its conducting team next season, as Associate Conductor Daniel Reith ends his three-year term and is succeeded by Taichi Fukumura as assistant conductor , while James Feddeck becomes principal conductor and … » Read

In 1958, Mildred and Richard Loving, a Black woman and a White man, went to Washington, D.C. to get married and then returned to their home north of Richmond. Their act of union broke two Virginia laws, one forbidding out-of-state travel for … » Read

Marin Alsop, in London preparing the world premiere of the orchestral version of Laura Karpman’s opera Balls about Billie Jean King’s 1973 tennis victory over Bobby Riggs, tells The Times (London) that she believes women conductors … » Read

Under its new Executive Director and CEO Gary Ginstling, the Houston Symphony has tapped one of Ginstling’s former colleagues as its new chief development officer. Arriving from June after two years in a similar post at the Cape Town (SA) … » Read

The Wallace Foundation, a major funder of the arts ($40 million over the last six years), has named Jean S. Desravines to succeed Will Miller as president as of September. Miller, in the job 14 years, announced last June that he would be leaving … » Read

Next season, Kent Nagano [pictured left] will assume the role of principal artistic partner with the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma for a three-year term. “It only took one concert, last summer, to create a special bond between Maestro … » Read

Ryan Fleur is the new president and CEO of the Philadelphia Orchestra, moving into the role permanently after nearly four months as interim. He succeeds Mathías Tarnopolsky, now president and CEO of the NY Phil, and with whom Fleur … » Read

Leadership changes are underway at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. In Los Angeles, Michael Beckerman has been named as the new dean of the Herb Alpert School as of Oct. 1. He arrives … » Read