Tonight, the Minnesota Orchestra launches three weeks of concerts centered on its Music Director Osmo Vänskä, who steps down on June 17 after 19 years. His final concerts in Orchestra Hall are of Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand. … » Read

Intent on continuing what appears to be a remarkably successful partnership—certainly the best this orchestra has seen in years—the National Symphony Orchestra has extended its contract with Music Director Gianandrea Noseda through … » Read

Edmonton Symphony Music Director Alexander Prior [pictured], his five-year contract at its end, will leave the orchestra to become music director of Germany’s Erfurt Opera and the Erfurt Philharmonic. The 29-year-old conductor is credited … » Read

After the six winners were announced at the Metropolitan Opera’s Grand Finals Concert on May 1, the culmination of its annual National Council Auditions, I realized that I had already seen one of them in two significant productions. The … » Read

David Radzynski, concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra since 2015, is to be the next concertmaster of The Cleveland Orchestra. He succeeds William Preucil, who was initially suspended in 2018 and subsequently fired for sexual … » Read

French conductor Nathalie Stutzmann, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s new music director, has brought along a close French-born advisor and colleague to be her artistic right-hand. He is Gaetan Le Divelec, her former artist manager, newly … » Read

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) and Opus 3 Artists have introduced the Artist Apprentice Program, a mentorship pairing seasoned managers with an outstanding early-career musician and a support network specific to the artist’s … » Read

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