Hungarian conductor Gábor Káli , who in 2018 won both the Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award and the top prize at the inaugural Hong Kong International Conducting Competition, has signed with HarrisonParrott … » Read

NEW YORK — Rosalind Elias, an American mezzo-soprano who created roles in a pair of Samuel Barber world premieres and made her Broadway debut at 81, has died. She was 90. Elias had been slowed by congestive heart failure for the past six … » Read

The Annapolis Symphony Orchestra has announced that Edgar Herrera is its new executive director, following a six-month search for a successor to Patrick J. Nugent, who left in September after four years to become VP for individual and … » Read

Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott , artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, is to serve in the same position at Santa Fe Pro Musica. She moves into the post over the next two years as successor to Music Director Tom O’Connor, who … » Read

Like musicians everywhere, Stella Chen is currently in lockdown, holed up in Connecticut sitting out the virus that has brought the world to a standstill. In her case it’s doubly frustrating as she should just have made her Alice Tully Hall … » Read

In January, Shauna Quill announced that she would be stepping down as executive director of the New York Youth Symphony (NYSS) as of June 30, to “pursue other opportunities.” The plan was for her successor to be in place by the time … » Read

The Lucerne Festival Academy has appointed a new managing director. He is Felix Heri, 34, current managing director of the Basel Sinfonietta; he starts on June 1, succeeding Dominik Deuber and reporting to Lucerne Festival Executive and Artistic … » Read

Westminster Choir College’s  battle to maintain its independence from Rider University and remain on its Princeton campus must not be going well. Joe Miller, the school’s director of choral activities and conductor of both the … » Read

In late March, acclaimed violinist Jennifer Koh inaugurated Alone Together , an online commissioning project. With support from Koh’s artist-driven nonprofit ARCO Collaborative, 21 composers, most of whom occupy salaried positions, will … » Read

Edwin Outwater, a former resident conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, music director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario, CA, from 2007 to 2017, and curator of the San Francisco Sound Box series, is to be the new music director of … » Read