Greg Holland, an executive affiliate of Nederlander Worldwide, as well as an executive producer of a number of Broadway shows in his own right, is to succeed Judy Lisi as president and CEO of the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts … » Read

Iranian composer/conductor Alexander Ali Rahbari [pictured with Gergiev] , a self-proclaimed Putin supporter, has announced on Instagram that he is the new principal guest conductor of the Mariinsky Theater, and will conduct ten concerts there … » Read

The Melbourne-based Victorian Opera has named Stuart Maunder AM (Member of the Order of Australia) as its next artistic director. He will  succeed composer-conductor Richard Mills AM at the conclusion of 2023. Maunder began his career in … » Read

The Minnesota Orchestra has chosen another Scandinavian to succeed Osmo Vänskä, whose valedictory season concluded in June after 19 years at the artistic helm. He is Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård, 52, who first led the … » Read

James Thomas, creative director of the Manchester Camerata, is to be the next director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia (RNS) & Classical Program. RNS is the U.K.’s only full-time chamber orchestra and is resident at Sage Gateshead, an … » Read

NEWPORT, RI (AP) — Surprise! Joni Mitchell is back onstage. The folk legend performed her first full-length concert on Sunday at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island.  Mitchell has contended with health complications since … » Read

The Detroit Symphony has appointed Robyn Bollinger, noted free-lance and former member of the Boston-based chamber group A Far Cry, to be its next concertmaster. After a successful audition in February, Bollinger sat in with the DSO for two weeks … » Read

Competition winners rarely elicit the kind of excitement these days that once attended the reception of legends like Vladimir Ashkenazy, Martha Argerich, or Van Cliburn. Often members of the merely “loud and fast” … » Read

Jonathan Heyward will not join the Baltimore Symphony as its new music director until the fall of 2023, but he is already introducing himself to the city. At a recent meeting with reporters, he shared information about his background and … » Read

The Louisville Orchestra’s initial “Creators Corps” is a racially- and gender-balanced trio of composer/performers, each of whom has a reputation for stretching musical boundaries and reaching beyond them into society. Funded … » Read