Having restructured the executive team last fall, Menna Mark Hanna [pictured], who succeeded Nigel Redden as general director and CEO of the Spoleto Festival in 2021, is now moving on to matters artistic. Last week the festival announced the … » Read

The Florida Orchestra has promoted Chelsea Gallo [pictured] from assistant to resident conductor.  She will lead her first Masterworks Series concerts in the coming season; Gallo is principal guest conductor of the Orlando Philharmonic, a … » Read

On Sept. 1, Sarah Cole became Interim Dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, succeeding Carol Becker, who was in the role for 16 years. Cole will step aside from her current post as the Dean of Humanities for the duration of her … » Read

On Sept. 22 George Benjamin’s latest opera— Picture a Day Like This —arrives at the Royal Opera House after its premiere at Aix-en-Provence this past summer. The work is the latest product of a remarkable partnership between the … » Read

Orchestras here and abroad are adding new musicians to their ranks as the new season is set to begin. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Dr. Mark Almond joins the CSO as principal horn from San Francisco, where he was an associate principal for both … » Read

The 2024 Gilmore Artist Award, a quadrennial prize of $300,000, which many liken to a MacArthur  “Genius”  Grant for pianists, has gone to Frenchman Alexandre Kantorow. He receives $50,000 cash in the immediate future and … » Read

The Boston Baroque, approaching is 50 th -anniversary season in 2023-24, has appointed Sarah Radcliffe-Marrs [pictured] as its next executive director, as of November 1st.  She succeeds Jennifer Ritvo Hughes,  who in July was appointed … » Read

Lyric Opera of Chicago General Director, President, and CEO Anthony Freud has said he will retire at the end of the current season. He will have been in the job 13 years. "Having been a general director for 30 years leading opera companies on … » Read

When Frenchman Stephane Lissner learned that he would be fired from his job as superintendent and artistic director of the San Carlo Opera because of a new law mandating foreign heads of opera houses to retire at age 70, he vowed to challenge the … » Read

After 11 years heading Florida Grand Opera, Susan Danis has resigned as general director and CEO, the company’s board of directors announced on Sept. 11. “The board thanks Ms. Danis for her tireless efforts on behalf of FGO throughout … » Read