New appointments at the Naples Philharmonic represent an influx of new talent on the eve of the upcoming 2022-23 season. The orchestra's size remains at about 60 players. Alvin Ho has been named assistant conductor, having been for two … » Read

With the start of its season on Sept. 22, the leadership transition at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is complete. Nathalie Stutzmann is the new music director, replacing Robert Spano, who held the position for two decades. Joining her as … » Read

Pianist William Ransom is to succeed Christopher Rex as artistic director of the Amelia Island (GA) Chamber Music Festival. Rex, who founded the event in 2001, died last March, having retired from the Atlanta Symphony in 2018 after 39 years as … » Read

Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici, full-time concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic for over 30 years, has left his position. In what the German Ministry of Culture describes as an amicable separation, he stepped down from the role at the end of … » Read

On the night of March 10, Sergiy Ivanchuk, an aspiring Ukrainian opera singer, was helping fellow civilians flee the Russian assault on Kharkiv when he was shot five times. That he survived was a miracle; one of the four fleeing passengers in his … » Read

One of the people most important to the success of John Adams’s new opera Antony and Cleopatra is invisible to the audience. Before the curtain rises on every performance, Matthew Piatt climbs up a metal ladder under the stage of San … » Read

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