Marguerite Lynn Williams, principal harp of the Lyric Opera of Chicago orchestra, is to be the new principal of the Minnesota Orchestra, effective next season. Williams--also on the faculties of the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern … » Read

Renée Fleming is donating her personal archives to the Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections at Juilliard. The collection documents her career, from its beginnings in the 1980s up to the present, and includes selected correspondence, press … » Read

In 2002, family considerations led Esther Nelson to take a break from a successful career that had seen her at the helms of companies in Nevada, North Carolina, Virginia, and Cooperstown, N.Y. By the time the Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) approached … » Read

Eric Jacobsen , music director of the Orlando Philharmonic, cofounder and coartistic director of the new music ensemble The Knights, has entered the race for artistic director of the Oregon Bach Festival. He joins the previously announced Julian … » Read

Philippe Tondre , principal oboe of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, among other ensembles, is to be the new principal with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He starts officially next season, but has been sitting in with the group since winning the … » Read

William “Bill” Winstead, former principal bassoonist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and a much beloved composer and teacher, died at the age 77 on Feb. 12.  A month earlier the CSO had premiered his Passages in Time , … » Read

JERUSALEM--Despite objections from sexual abuse activists, the Israeli Opera will host a weeklong singing competition organized by Spanish opera star Plácido Domingo in Tel Aviv later this year. Domingo, 80, has withdrawn from all U.S. … » Read

Daniel Harding has withdrawn from conducting the Vienna Opera Ball two days from now, “due to a serious illness in the family,” reports the Staatsoper. James Conlon, who in December led successful performances of Die Zauberflöte … » Read

Telling the Courier Journal that the job was not what he had expected, Robert Massey announced he would leave his position as  CEO of the Louisville Symphony after barely more than a year. He characterized the decision as a mutual one, and … » Read

French conductor Emmanuel Villaume, music director and chief conductor of the Prague Philharmonia and music director of The Dallas Opera, has joined Cambridge, UK-based Hazard Chase for general management. He was previously with Opus 3. Villaume … » Read