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New Exec Director for PCO

The Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1990 as the first professional chamber ensemble in middle PA, has a new executive director. She is Caitlin Martinkus, professor of music theory at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and she succeeds … »
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Teddy Re-ups in Louisville

The Louisville Orchestra has extended Teddy Abrams’s tenure as music director for three years, through the 2027-28 season. He joined the ensemble as music director designate in 2013. “Teddy’s leadership has transformed the … »
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Kiril Petrenko Wins Sonning Prize

Kirill Petrenko, chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, will receive the 2026 Léonie Sonning Music Prize, Denmark’s largest music prize, at a gala concert in the Copenhagen Concert Hall on June 13, 2026. He will conduct the … »
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Surprising Appointment(s) at the Hong Kong Phil

Austrian businessman Bernhard Fleischer, founder and owner of Bernard Fleischer Moving Images (BFMI), is to be the next CEO of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. BFMI has recorded hundreds of international classical music and dance performances, artist … »
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Music Faculty Additions to UNCSA

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, … »
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Recent Strings, Coming & Going

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 … »
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American Brass Quintet Names New Trumpet

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 … »
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New in Academe, Wyoming to Ljubljana

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. … »
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More Changes at Opera Australia

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 … »
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Remembering Roger

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 … »
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