Just one week out from the start of the 2023 event, the annual Ojai Music Festival has announced the music director of the 2024 iteration: Mitsuko Uchida, Musical America’s 2022 Artist of the Year. Uchida, pianist, conductor, co-artistic … » Read

In January 2021, Fiona Maddocks, the classical music critic for The Observer , committed to delivering a 90,000-word manuscript on the last 25 years of Sergei Rachmaninov’s life within 15 months. It was the start of the second year of the … » Read

Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music has hired Jonathan Bailey Holland as dean, starting in September and succeeding Toni-Marie Montgomery, who exits at summer’s end after 20 years in the job.   Holland is the current … » Read

In October, Andrés Orozco-Estrada will succeed Ernesto Schiavi as principal conductor of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Turin, the official ensemble of Italy’s public radio and television company RAI. His contract is for … » Read

With the arrival of Wilbur Lin as music director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra (DYAO) comes its re-connection with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO), most pointedly with Lin serving the additional role of assistant conductor of the … » Read

Eastman School of Music has added two full-time faculty to the woodwinds, brass and percussion department for 2023-24. Andrew McCandless [pictured] , principal trumpet of the Toronto Symphony since 1999, is to be associate professor of trumpet. … » Read

Though he often sings countertenor roles, Elijah McCormack isn't a countertenor. As a transgender man whose mature singing voice never deepened, he prefers to call himself a male soprano. “I considered taking testosterone, and I chose not … » Read

Sebastian Nordmann, director of the Konzerthaus and Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, is to be the next executive and artistic director of the Lucerne Festival, succeeding Michael Haefliger, who last fall said he would step down after 26 years at the … » Read

Gustavo Dudamel, just on the heels of conducting three sold-out Mahler Ninth Symphony performances at the New York Philharmonic, has resigned as music director of the Paris Opera, four years ahead of schedule. His decision takes effect in August, … » Read

After a two-year search that attracted almost 100 applicants, the Elgin (IL) Symphony Orchestra (ESO) has tapped Chad Goodman [pictured] as its fifth music director. Most recently a conducting fellow at the New World Symphony, Goodman has been … » Read