Anna Handler [pictured], currently conducting Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges at the Salzburg Festival, has joined Opus 3 for representation in North and South America. Recently named a Dudamel Fellow for 2023-24, the … » Read

Cellist Nick Photinos is to succeed professor emeritus James Tocco as professor of chamber music and eminent scholar at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). The co-founder of eighth blackbird, Musical America’s … » Read

Will Anna Netrebko be permitted to perform a concert at Prague’s Municipal House, currently scheduled for October 16? In a statement issued on July 31, Jirí Pospíšil, the city’s deputy mayor, reported that the … » Read

Violinist Boson Mo , recent acting assistant concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony and member of the Houston Symphony, is to be the concertmaster of the Phoenix Symphony as of next fall. He succeeds Steven Moeckel, new concertmaster of the … » Read

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — Two years after the debut of the Bayreuth Festival’s first female conductor, Nathalie Stutzmann became the second to lead a Wagner opera in the Festpielhaus’s famous covered pit. The 58-year-old former … » Read

Isaac Thompson, Managing Director of the New York Philharmonic, is to be the next President and CEO of the Oregon Symphony, moving from No. 2 at the former to No. 1 in Oregon. He starts in October. In New York, Thompson was the first top hire in … » Read

Peter Otto, longtime first associate concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra and acting concertmaster from 2018-2022, is to be the new concertmaster of the Nashville Symphony as of January, 2024. He succeeds Jun Iwasaki, who assumed the same job … » Read

In a classic example of understatement, Felix Klieser, born without arms, calls his becoming a French horn player “a little miracle.” But his characterization has little to do with his physical condition. Instead, it tracks his need … » Read

New Jersey’s Symphony in C, which identifies as a “training orchestra,” has a new music director who arrived earlier this month. She is Israeli-born conductor Noam Aviel, the first to hold the position since Stillian Kirov … » Read

The Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), defined as the oldest professional organization of independent and collegiate music teachers (est. 1876), will soon see its Executive Director and CEO of three decades make his exit. Gary Ingle has … » Read