The Royal Albert Hall has appointed James Ainscough as its new chief executive officer, effective in the late spring of 2023. He succeeds Craig Hassall, who s tepped down on December 16, 2022 to become president and chief executive of Playhouse … » Read

Jean Davidson, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Master Chorale since 2015, is to succeed Gary Ginstling as executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra, effective April 1. Ginstling is the new executive director of the New York … » Read

Chris Lorway, executive and artistic director of Stanford Live, the California university’s presenting series (200 performances/four venues), is to be the next president and CEO of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, effective in … » Read

Lydia Tár, the conducting phenomenon at the core of the eponymous motion picture , doesn’t exist. But she bears a remarkable resemblance to Marin Alsop, the real world’s most famous female conductor. Alsop, however, is quick to … » Read

David Binder, artistic director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music since 2019 , has announced his plans to exit in July. Having come from the commercial-theater world (he was lead producer of the Tony Award-winning Hedwig and the Angry Inch , among … » Read

Bernadette Horgan, director of public relations for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and as such a member of the BSO senior management team, is stepping down from her position as of January 20.  She has been with the orchestra for 35 years, or, … » Read

Pride of place as history’s first Black composer is often awarded to the 18 th -century French Creole, Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. But a growing body of scholarship suggests that the title more appropriately belongs to … » Read

Daniel Barenboim, among the world’s most highly visible conductors, has resigned as general music director of the Berlin Staatsoper, a position he has held since 1992.  His final day is January 31. “Unfortunately, my health has … » Read

The maestro memoir has long been the exclusive province of men. Ten years ago, Music as Alchemy , a book of interviews of conductors included not a single woman. Now, the same publisher has released In Good Hands: The Making of a Modern Conductor … » Read

That was quick. No sooner did Alexei Ratmansky step down as artist in residence of the American Ballet Theatre than the New York City Ballet snatched him up for the same post—a new one for this company—beginning in August, just two … » Read