Mark Ball will become artistic director of the Southbank Center, the UK’s largest arts center, in January 2022. Currently the creative director at Manchester International Festival, Ball will be responsible for developing an expansive … » Read

Opera Parallèle, San Francisco’s vital source of new and contemporary opera since 2007, has a new senior executive team, organized under and announced by its Founder and Artistic Director Nicole Paiemen t, who recently added General … » Read

The Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang is to be the beneficiary of the long-term loan of the 1734 “Rode” Guarneri del Gesù violin. Previously played by virtuosi such as Pierre Rode, Norbert Brainin, and Kyung Wha Chung, Frang … » Read

London native Suzy Klein, a veteran of the BBC for over two decades, is to become the broadcaster’s head of Arts and Classical Music in October. Her position has been newly created to ensure that arts and classical music commissioning is … » Read

The generational turnover in the performing arts rolls on, as the 92 nd Street Y appoints a successor to Hanna Arie-Gaifman, who  announced in January that she would step down after 21 years as director of the Tisch Center for the Arts. The … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Walter Yetnikoff, the rampaging, R-rated head of CBS Records who presided over blockbuster releases by Michael Jackson, Billy Joel ,and many others and otherwise devoted his life to a self-catered feast of “schmoozing, … » Read

Opera Australia (OA) has named a new CEO, the first woman to occupy the job, and a highly credentialled one at that. Fiona Allan, born in Australia but living in the U.K. since 2004 when she was appointed artistic director of the Wales Millennium … » Read

The editors at London’s Telegraph Group must have been listening: When Sir Nicholas Kenyon announced his  plan to depart after nearly 25 years as managing director of the Barbican, among the reasons he stated was his desire to get back … » Read

Korean-Canadian conductor Earl Lee has been tapped as the new assistant conductor for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His two-year term begins next season, with his first podium appearance slated for the summer of 2022 at Tanglewood. Subscription … » Read

A sudden and sobering announcement arrived this morning. “After a series of tests, Michael Tilson Thomas was diagnosed with a brain tumor that required an immediate operation. The operation at the UCSF Medical Center was successful. He is … » Read