Just days before it unveils the upcoming Tanglewood Festival season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has named Ed Gazouleas as interim director of the Tanglewood Music Center. The announcement was made by BSO interim CEO Jeffrey Dunn. The two … » Read

The Marseille Opera House and Philharmonic have named Italian conductor Michele Spotti, 29, to be the next music director, starting in 2023-24. He will succeed American conductor Lawrence Foster, 81. The announcement was made yesterday by … » Read

Some injustices linger far longer than others. In the case of timpanist Elayne Jones, who  died this past December at 94, it was almost fifty years earlier when her case for tenure with the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) was denied despite … » Read

The Cincinnati Symphony has announced a total of 11 new musicians, plus a new principal librarian and previously announced assistant conductors Samuel Lee and Daniel Wiley . Like everything else in the world, the pandemic wreaked havoc with … » Read

Although Charles Edwards [pictured] has been designing operas for major companies throughout the U.K., Europe, and the U.S. for decades, he has yet to tackle Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde , a work that first captured his imagination when he … » Read

David Crosby , the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and an ongoing troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young, has died at 81, several media outlets … » Read

The Pittsburgh Ballet Theater (PBT) has hired Adam McKinney, 46, as its new artistic director as of March 15. He succeeds Susan Jaffee, who departed in December to become artistic director of American Ballet Theater after two years in Pittsburgh. … » Read

American conductor Matthew Kraemer is to succeed Carlos Miguel Prieto as music director of the Louisiana Philharmonic. Prieto, in the job 17 years, becomes music director of the North Carolina Symphony as of 2023-24, after initially being hired … » Read

Unlike many accomplished professionals—elite athletes immediately come to mind—classical musicians and conductors can perform well into their eighth and even ninth decades. Indeed, a long career in music generally brings with it … » Read

The Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra (HSO), the ten-year-old reincarnation of the defunct Honolulu Symphony, has hired its first music director: Chinese-Australian conductor Dane Lam, the associate music director of Opera Queensland and artistic … » Read