Joshua Kosman, longtime music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle , has written a moving remembrance of the late Michael Morgan . Understandably, they came to know each other well over the years, not just as colleagues in a business, but as … » Read

Marc Stevens is to succeed Paul Dornian as president and CEO of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra next month. Dornian is retiring after six years in the job. Stevens arrives after seven years at the National Arts Center (NAC) in Ottawa, where he … » Read

Bramwell Tovey is to be the next music director of the Sarasota (FL) Orchestra, officially starting in fall of 2022, serving as designate in the coming season. Tovey, 68, is perhaps best known as the longtime music director of Canada's Vancouver … » Read

Tom West, former chief advancement officer of the Los Angeles based American Film Institute, is the new executive director of the Atlanta Ballet. He succeeds Arturo Jacobus, who retired at the end of last season, leaving the company in fiscal … » Read

Julia Desbruslais has announced that she will step down as executive director of the London Mozart Players (LMP) at the end of 2021. She has been with the group since 1989 as a cellist, and assumed the executive position in 2016, two years after … » Read

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Don Everly, one-half of the pioneering Everly Brothers whose harmonizing country rock hits impacted a generation of rock ‘n’ roll music, has died. He was 84. Everly died at his home in Nashville, … » Read

Illness has forced Yannick Nézet-Séguin to cancel his appearances with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra on Aug. 21 and 24. It will require four people to replace the maestro. On Aug. 21 Yuja Wang will perform Mozart’s Piano … » Read

San Francisco Symphony Chorus Director Ragnar Bohlin has resigned as of this month, after 14 years in the job. He is an anti-vaxxer, as made clear from his Facebook posts, and, since the orchestra and indeed the city is demanding proof of … » Read

Michael Morgan, longtime music director of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra with a hard-earned, sterling reputation as both powerful artistic communicator and a keen awareness of what an orchestra can be, died at Oakland Kaiser Hospital in … » Read

Spencer Rubin, a 17-year-old oboist from Long Island, is intent on showing Gen Z-ers that classical music is cool. “One of the main ways to keep classical music alive is to just keep people talking about it, and so if we can do that through … » Read