BOSTON--The Berklee College of Music has chosen Erica Muhl to serve as the school's next president, making her the first woman to lead the institution in its 75-year history, officials at the Boston school have announced. Muhl, a composer and … » Read

Liza Stepanova 's identity as a pianist goes beyond interpreting a legacy of glorious repertoire from the past for the present: Her sensors are continually alert to the ways in which freshly created music can help us make sense of the situations … » Read

In January, the musicians of the Concertgebouworkest voted for three possible contenders to succeed Daniel Gatti, who was fired as chief conductor when reports of his sexual abuse first surfaced two years ago. The possibles were Valery Gergiev, … » Read

Keith Jarrett, giant of the piano, will likely never play in public again. His last concert—at Carnegie Hall in early 2017—was to be followed by a return to Carnegie in 2018, but he cancelled the event due to unspecified health … » Read

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, onetime Musical America Artist of the Year, used her recent acceptance speech upon receiving the Instrumentalist of the Year/Violin Opus Klassik prize in Berlin as a platform to speak out on the impact of the … » Read

In the second New York meets California music biz partnership to be announced within the last 24 hours, Beth Morrison and her BMP team will spend four weeks next summer working with the students of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. … » Read

French cellist Bruno Philippe has signed with Askonas Holt for general management having previously been with l’agence, which will now represent him solely in France. A onetime prize-winner at the Tchaikovsky, Feuermann, and ARD … » Read

American soprano Lisette Oropesa is one of the lucky few in the opera world—she is busy singing while most of her contemporaries have been silenced by Covid-19. She recently took time away from preparing to sing Konstanze in Mozart’s … » Read

In 2016, Helga Rabl-Stadler , the iron-fist, velvet-glove president of the Salzburg Festival, signed an extension of her contract that would see her creating and overseeing the program for the festival’s centennial season, in summer 2020. … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, silenced by the pandemic, has lost its principal harp to the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Emmanuel Ceysson , with the MET Orchestra since 2015, will succeed Lou Anne Neill, who has retired after 37 years. Ceysson, … » Read