University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has 25 new faculty members arriving for the 2025–26 school year, including 12 full-time and 13 adjunct and visiting, in the Schools of  Dance, Design and Production, Drama, … » Read

Chicago Sinfonietta section cellist Lindsey Sharpe will move into the principal chair this season, succeeding the orchestra’s founding principal cello Ann Griffin, who moves to coprincipal. Sharpe has been for the last four years a … » Read

Theresa Bogard [pictured], professor of music and keyboard coordinator at the University of Wyoming (UW), has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to teach and conduct research on Brazilian women composers during the 2025-26 academic year. … » Read

The American Brass Quintet (ABQ) has announced the departure of Kevin Cobb, one of its two trumpeters and in the group since 1998, and the arrival of Tiago Linck to succeed him. Linck, who is from Brazil and as such becomes the ABQ’s first … » Read

Opera Australia (OA) has appointed conductor and composer Andrea Battistoni as its new music director, beginning in January 2026. The rising Italian maestro has experience with the world’s most notable opera houses, among them Covent … » Read

I first met Sir Roger Norrington when I attended the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London. He conducted the Academy's Baroque orchestra and chamber choir in Haydn's Symphony No. 44, Trauer , and Mozart's Requiem . Conducting students were … » Read

A letter signed by more than 50 British members of parliament from both major parties, Ukrainian artists and writers, and a former New Zealand prime minister is urging the Royal Ballet and Opera to drop Anna Netrebko from performances in Tosca … » Read

Jeffrey Finn, who has overseen theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since 2016, has submitted his resignation, effective Sept. 19. Although he has held open the possibility that he might serve as a consultant on programs … » Read

David Bennett, who became general director of the San Diego Opera when the company was in the midst of a near-death experience in 2015 , has been offered a five-year contract extension through the 2029-30 season. Citing his “visionary … » Read

Raymond Bisha, who over the course of three decades at Naxos rose to the position of senior vice-president of marketing, died suddenly on Aug. 5 at the age of 68. Born to a musical family in Canada, Bisha took a circuitous route to the executive … » Read