The Japan Art Association, under the honorary patronage of HIH Prince Hitachi, has announced its 2022 Praemium Imperiale Award winners as Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman, along with Chinese artist, activist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei, German … » Read

When Queen Elizabeth II died on Sept. 8, the world of classical music lost a devoted patron, a monarch who inspired the creation of great music and supported the art form throughout her seven-decade reign. In 1930, when Elizabeth was only four … » Read

Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), the Lenox, MA, summer program for young musicians ages 14 to 20 founded in 1954 that links the BU College of Fine Arts with Tanglewood and the BSO, has a new executive director in Nicole Wendl. She … » Read

Alan Davey, Controller of Radio 3, BBC Proms, and BBC Orchestras and Choirs for the past eight years, will leave his post in March 2023 to focus on his interests in academics and arts groups. The announcement arrives on the heels of Paul … » Read

CHICAGO (AP) — Renowned jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, whose music entertained fans over a more than 60-year career that began with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and made him one of the country’s most successful jazz musicians, has died. He was … » Read

Four rising artists have recently signed with their first artist management firms. Latvian conductor Aivis Greters [left], 29, has joined HarrisonParrott; in the last season alone, he made debuts the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Riga … » Read

Though his official 150 th birthday doesn’t fall until 2023, Sergei Rachmaninoff appears to be on presenters’ minds of late. Popular with audiences, historically dismissed by critics, his music is OK to like these days, at least … » Read

Stefan Klingele, 55, will return to Theater Bremen as its new music director and chief conductor, as of 2023-24, succeeding Yoel Gamzou. Klingele served as principal conductor and later chief conductor in Bremen from 1999 to 2007; his new … » Read

At the Oregon Symphony, Clement So [pictured] has succeeded Charles Calmer as VP for programming. So arrives from the San Diego Symphony, where he was VP for artistic planning for five years. Before that he was artistic administrator of New … » Read

Jorja Fleezanis, concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra from 1989-2009, died unexpectedly on September 9 at her home in Michigan at the age of 70. The cause, according to the orchestra, was “a cardiovascular event.”   The … » Read