The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is adding five new musicians to its fulltime roster from the beginning of the 2023-24 season. In making the announcement, Fabio Luisi, who begins his fourth season as music director this fall, welcomed the new … » Read

MODESTO, CA—The Board of Directors of the Modesto Symphony Orchestra Association has announced that Nicholas Hersh will become the organization’s next Music Director. Hersh, who is only the ninth music director in the … » Read

You just can’t keep a good man down, it seems. David Hyslop, a legend in the world of running orchestras and/or consulting for them, is the new interim president and CEO of the Reno (NV) Philharmonic. He steps into the position vacated by … » Read

The Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in 2021 meant the reintroduction of a regime that criminalizes musical expression, especially among women. For Huma Rahimi, who had learned to play the sitar at the Afghan National Institute of … » Read

On Aug. 22, following a concert at the Berlioz Festival in La Côte-Saint-André in south-eastern France, 80-year-old conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner slapped and punched bass William Thomas in the face. The singer’s apparent … » Read

Opera Holland Park’s Rigoletto might easily have been just another London night at the opera. That it turned out to be rather special was largely down to conductor Lee Reynolds. Despite reduced forces, he managed to pull a rabbit out of the … » Read

Patty Isacson Sabee, current executive director of Planet Word in Washington, D.C., former CEO of the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, is to succeed Wayne S. Brown as president and CEO of the Detroit Opera. Brown, who succeeded the late founding … » Read

This year’s Glimmerglass Festival, which concludes today, may well be remembered as the summer of Anthony Roth Costanzo. The counter tenor, a member of the Young Artists program in 2008 who has returned three times since to perform, seemed … » Read

In announcing its upcoming season of eight programs performed at four different venues, Santa Barbara chamber music group Camerata Pacifica noted that its new executive director, in the job since June 1, was Ana Papakhian [pictured]. She succeeds … » Read

The San Francisco Symphony and music director Esa-Pekka Salonen have announced Yubeen Kim as the orchestra’s new principal flute and Katherine Siochi as its principal harp. The two new appointments fill a pair of vacancies that arose during … » Read