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

Larry Edelson , founding artistic and executive director of the American Lyric Theater, is to step down from his additional post as Opera Saratoga’s artistic and general director at the end of the 2022 summer festival. He has been in the … » Read

Kahchun Wong is to move from his current post as principal guest to chief conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra as of fall 2023, when his two-year tenure in the guest position ends.  He is the current chief conductor of the Nuremberg … » Read

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) has named two artistic partners—the South African cellist Abel Selaocoe and German violist Tabea Zimmermann—as of the 2022-23 season. Zimmermann, widely considered to be the world’s … » Read

Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Minister for Culture for North Rhine-Westphalia, has announced that beginning November 1, 2023, Ivo van Hove will become artistic director of the Ruhr Triennale for a three-year term. Van Hove will succeed the current … » Read

CAMI Music, not to be confused with the defunct CAMI—though both originated on Ronald Wilford’s watch—has signed composer Andy Akiho , who specializes in large-scale, theatrical works such as Seven Pillars , performed last month … » Read

On July 1 J. T. Kane will be joining the Manhattan School of Music (MSM) as dean of the newly created Instrumental Studies and Orchestral Performance Division. Kane is currently VP for musician advancement and dean of orchestra at the New World … » Read

Teresa Berganza, the Spanish mezzo-soprano renowned over her 40-year career for her distinctive legato and skill with language, died on May 13 in Madrid. She was 89. Born in Madrid in 1933, Berganza began her career as a 22-year-old in the era of … » Read