Amanda Gookin is to be the next executive director of Music at the Anthology, or MATA, which supports emerging composers through commissioning, performing, and funding their work. Founded by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa in … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — Famed actor Phylicia Rashad is returning to her alma mater as the new dean of the Howard University College of Fine Arts. The longtime performer and Tony Award winner, who rose to cultural prominence as Clair Huxtable on … » Read

As  previously reported, Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic were to have officially reopened La Scala on May 11, the very day of the 75 th anniversary of the postwar reopening under Toscannini. When La Scala Music Director Riccardo … » Read

In his first music directorship, conductor Christian Reif takes the artistic helm of Minnesota’s Lakes Area Music Festival (LAMF), effective immediately. The festival, founded in 2009 and based in Brainerd, MN, runs July 30-August 22, an … » Read

Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen is to be the next music director of the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul, the national radio symphony orchestra in Korea. He succeeds Yoel Levi, who left in 2019. Inkinen has signed a three-year commitment, … » Read

Apparently in no rush to find a new chief conductor after the demise of Daniele Gatti,  Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has announced new relationships for 2020-21, including one with Pierre Audi as creative partner. A devout … » Read

A surprise announcement from Saxony’s Minister for Culture Barbara Klepsch indicates that the contract of Semperoper’s longtime Chief Conductor Christian Thielemann will not be renewed when it expires at the end of 2023-24. At the … » Read

RAVENNA, Italy - Riccardo Muti has once again reopened the Italian musical season in his adopted hometown of Ravenna after another—and if all goes well perhaps final — round of pandemic closures. With a purposeful nod and flick of his … » Read

The Juilliard School has named a top Curtis Institute academic as dean and director of its music division. David Serkin Ludwig—whose uncle was Peter Serkin and whose grandfather, pianist Rudolf Serkin, was director of Curtis from … » Read

Lou Magor, the first director of the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) Chorus, died on April 11 of heart failure at 75 years of age. Although his tenure with the ensemble was less than a decade, he left a lasting impression as, in the words of SFS … » Read