Stuart Murphy, the ofttimes controversial CEO of the English National Opera (ENO) since 2018 , has announced he plans to leave the company in September 2023. While a postmortem of his tenure awaits the judgment of others, Murphy pointed to the … » Read

As of September 2025, the 41-year-old Czech conductor Jakub Hruša will become the new music director of the Royal Opera House. He succeeds Antonio Pappano, who steps down at the end of the 2023-24 season after 22 years, the longest tenure … » Read

Geoff Nuttall, founding first-violinist of the St. Lawrence String Quartet and director of chamber music for the Spoleto Festival USA, died today at the age of 56. The cause was cancer, according to a statement from his colleagues in the … » Read

La Musica International Chamber Music Festival, in Sarasota, FL, has selected Wu Han as its new artistic director. She succeeds Bruno Giuranna, who co-founded the festival 37 years ago. In announcing the appointment, the festival’s board … » Read

In late September, Russian troops murdered conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko in his home in Kherson, a port city on the Dnieper River occupied by Russian forces in March. The 46-year-old maestro had refused to participate in a concert on October 1, the … » Read

The chairman of Live Nation NYC, Ron Delsener, has said he will retire after six decades in the concert promotion business, stretching in eras from the Beatles through Sprinsteen, David Bowie to Quincy Jones.  He is 86. Delsener has for … » Read

The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, at 125 years said to be the oldest of its kind in the country, has a new artistic director and conductor in Christopher Jackson. He succeeds Greg Funfgeld, who retired in June after 39 seasons in the job. Jackson is … » Read

Stanford Thompson has announced that after 13 years at the helm, he will step down as executive director of Play On Philly (POP) at the end of the current school year. He is leaving, he writes in a letter to the POP community, “to continue … » Read

In a host of recent faculty appointments comes new that percussionist Ji Su Jung has joined the timpani and percussion faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music . Witnessed in action performing Kevin Puts’s 1997 Marimba Concerto at the 2021 … » Read

Both the opera and ballet of the Finish National Opera are getting new artistic directors. Javier Torres López arrived at the National Ballet in that capacity on August 1, 2022, and Thomas de Mallet Burgess is slated to succeed Lilli … » Read