A sea change is underway in the San Francisco classical music world, as three new conductors assume their places after a year of silence. At the San Francisco Symphony, Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen finally takes the reins live. Among the … » Read

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, a multi-genre presenter in St. Paul, MN, has named Christopher Harrington as its president and CEO. The announcement arrives just ahead of the venue’s reopening after an 18-month pandemic shutdown, … » Read

The San Francisco Girls’ Chorus (SFGC) has promoted Adriana Marcial, interim executive director since August 2020, to the position full time. She succeeds J. Andrew Bradford, a former development director at Music@Menlo now interim … » Read

The New England Conservatory of Music has added pianists Jonathan Biss and Marc-André Hamelin to its piano faculty with one-year appointments to begin with the start of the 2021 academic year. "Jonathan and Marc-André are two of the … » Read

Opening night at the Metropolitan Opera is always a big occasion. For Will Liverman, who sings Charles, the lead role in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones on Sept. 27, the evening holds promise of being a career-defining moment. … » Read

Andrea (Andi) Lamoreaux is exiting Chicago’s classical radio station WFMT after 52 years with the organization. She leaves October 1, some 20 years after being named music director. She started in 1969 as a music librarian, fresh from … » Read

German media are reporting that Eva Wagner-Pasquier, 76, great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner and former artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival with Katharina Wagner, is in a coma. She was apparently pulled out of the Isar River—a … » Read

Adam Krauthamer, president of New York Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), has announced he will not run for a second three-year term this fall. The 37-year-old, Curtis and Yale-educated French horn player ran a  … » Read

As an entire generation of baby-boomer arts leaders heads into retirement, the field continues to count on one, apparently ageless, stalwart to pass on the wisdom of hands-on experience. It is, of course, David Hyslop, whose symphony orchestra … » Read

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Mikis Theodorakis, the beloved Greek composer whose rousing music and life of political defiance won acclaim abroad and inspired millions at home, died Thursday. He was 96. His death at his home in central Athens was … » Read