Anthony ("Tony") Tommasini will step down at year’s end after 22 years as the chief classical music critic of The New York Times , one of the most powerful positions in the international classical music realm. The announcement was made … » Read

Mark Elder, music director of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, U.K., since 2000, is to be the principal guest conductor of the Bergen (NO) Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) as of August 2022. His three-year contract obligates him to three or … » Read

Charlotte Smith, editor of The Strad , is to succeed Oliver Condy as the editor of BBC Music magazine in January. Condy, who left in May after 17 years and many iterations of BBC Music ( published by the Immediate Media Group), has authored a new … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra has five new members, including a new head librarian, bringing the number hired during Music Director Franz Welser-Möst’s 20-year reign to nearly half of the ensemble. The Austrian conductor noted he had heard … » Read

John Roloff is the new COO of the Kansas City Symphony . He arrives from the Milwaukee Symphony, where, as VP of orchestra and facility operations, he functioned as executive producer for MSO’s live and media activities, including a … » Read

French conductor Ludovic Morlot is to succeed Kazushi Ono as music director of the Barcelona Symphony starting in fall 2022 for four seasons. Ono was recently tapped as the next music director of the Brussels Philharmonic , also in 2022, for five … » Read

The Little Orchestra Society (L.O.S.) has promoted its director of education and recent associate director to the top administrative post. Now executive director, Anthony C. Ball succeeds Joanne Bernstein-Cohen, who died in August at the age of … » Read

Conductor Semyon Bychkov has cancelled his first trip to the U.S. in three years, quashing plans to conduct the Cleveland Orchestra November 11-13 and the New York Philharmonic November 17-19. Neither orchestra cited an official reason. In … » Read

Sir Roger Norrington, leader of the historical performance practice movement both abroad and Stateside for the last half-century, has announced that he will conduct his final concert on November 18, leading the Royal Northern Sinfonia (RNS) at … » Read

David McCormick, an early-music scholar, educator, and Baroque violinist, is to succeed Karin Brookes as the executive director of Early Music America (EMA). Brookes, in the job four years, is the new administrative director at the Juilliard … » Read