Up-and-coming Norwegian conductor Daniel Reith is to be The Cleveland Orchestra’s next assistant conductor, as of next season. He will also serve as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. Reith succeeds current associate … » Read

The Ojai Music Festival’s music director for the 2023 edition will be composer, singer, fiddle and banjo player Rhiannon Giddens. Festival Artistic and Executive Director Ara Guzelimian announced today that the quadruple-threat artist had … » Read

Robert Ainsley, director of the Cafritz Young Artists Program and the American Opera Initiative at the Washington National Opera (WNO), is to be the next artistic and general director of the Glimmerglass Festival. He will be succeeding his … » Read

Nicole Taney, director of artistic planning and operations for the Spoleto Festival USA, which opens on Friday, has been appointed by the Celebrity Series of Boston as its new artistic director. She takes over later in the summer, succeeding Amy … » Read

British conductor Jan-Latham Koenig , 69, is to be chief conductor of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, as of next season. He is onetime chief conductor of Belgium’s Flanders Philharmonic, the Orchestra of Porto (which he founded at … » Read

Simon Preston, an organist, conductor, and composer of international repute, died on May 13. He was 83. One of the most important church musicians of his time, Preston is widely credited with playing a leading role in reinvigorating the English … » Read

The Pavel Haas Quartet , now in its 20 th -anniversary season, has signed with Kirshbaum Associates for North American representation. Founded in 2002 by violinist Veronika Jarušková and violist Pavel Nikl, the group is comprised of … » Read

Yura Lee is to be the new principal viola of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. A member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Boston Chamber Music Society, and a chamber participant in festivals from Marlboro to Salzburg, she has been … » Read

Last fall Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones opened the season at the Metropolitan Opera, the first work by a Black composer to ever be performed in the 138-year history of the company. The opera is the second by the jazz … » Read

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Vangelis, the Greek electronic composer who wrote the unforgettable Academy Award-winning score for the film Chariots of Fire and music for dozens of other movies, documentaries and TV series, has died at 79. Greek … » Read