The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2021-22 season concluded on a week during which in the city alone 30 people were shot and five died due to gun violence. That same week 19 elementary school students and two teachers were shot to death in … » Read

Umberto Clerici, recent principal cello of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, is the new chief conductor of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO). He succeeds  Johannes Fritzsch, principal conductor and artistic advisor since 2021, and chief … » Read

Composer Ingram Marshall, who melded electronics with standard orchestral instruments to create atmospheric, often melancholy works, died on May 31 in New Haven, CT. He was 80. Marshall’s music defied easy classification. Preferring to … » Read

Julia Bullock, a key member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), music director of this year's  Ojai Music Festival, which opens on Thursday, tested positive for Covid-19 just prior to her planned flight to California from  … » Read

The inclusion of Stephen Hough CBE on the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honor's List made the pianist, composer, and author the first British-born classical pianist to be knighted since Sir Clifford Curzon in 1977. When acknowledging the award, Hough … » Read

Mark Pemberton, longtime chief executive of the Association of British Orchestras (ABO) has decided to step down at the end of next September. He has been in the job since 2007 and is considered among the top managers in the field. He exits, he … » Read

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