Just under one year after taking the job, Peter Mraz has resigned as president and CEO of the American Pianists Association.  Mraz succeeded Joel Harrison, with APA for 21 years before retiring in June of 2021. Mraz’s hiring was a bit … » Read

Boundary-pushing trio Time for Three (TF3),  known for its equal facility across a panoply of genres and vintages, has joined Opus 3 Artists for North American representation. (For general management, it remains with Park Avenue … » Read

In 1998 cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded the Silk Road Project, a touring ensemble of musicians devoted to cross-cultural collaboration and bringing music to underserved communities. When he announced his plans to step aside in 2017, a trio of its … » Read

On Friday, the Bayreuth Festival announced that Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen has Covid, and so has had to withdraw from conducting the new production of The Ring , scheduled to open July 31. Cornelius Meister, 42, general music director of … » Read

For the first time in 45 years, a new musician will assume the principal cello chair for the San Francisco Symphony. Rainer Eudeikis, who joined the Atlanta Symphony in 2019, starts with SFS in September. He succeeds the late Michael Grebanier, … » Read

The ascendant American soprano Angel Blue has withdrawn from her planned debut at the Arena di Verona in the festival’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata . Her action was in response to the Arena’s recent production of Aida , in … » Read

Gustavo Gimeno, music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as of this season , is to be the next music director of Teatro Real starting fall 2025. At that time, he will step down as music director of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, … » Read

Austin’s KMFA 89.5, which defines itself as an independent radio station focusing on classical programming, some of it locally produced, has announced the departure of Ann Hume Wilson as president and general manager as of the end of the … » Read

The Houston Chamber Choir (HCC), founded in 1995 by Artistic Director Robert Simpson, has named its first executive director in Brian Miller, most recently the chorus manager for the Houston Symphony. The HCC, winner of a 2020 Grammy award for … » Read

Bramwell Tovey, named music director of the Sarasota Orchestra just under one year ago, died at his home in Rhode Island on July 12, one day after his 69 th birthday. Tovey was diagnosed with a rare form of sarcoma in May of 2019 but had seemed … » Read