In February 2020 Paul Helfrich will join the Orlando Philharmonic as executive director. He succeeds Christopher Barton, who left in March 2019. Longtime arts administrator  David Hyslop has been serving as interim since last May and will … » Read

Scotland based conductor Holly Mathieson takes over as music director of Symphony Nova Scotia as of January 2020 on a three-year contract. Her first performance in the new role will be next October. She succeeds Bernhard Gueller, in the job for … » Read

After a nine-month international search, the Cincinnati Opera has looked to its own and chosen Christopher Milligan, its current managing director, to be its next general director and CEO. He starts on March 2, succeeding Patricia Beggs, who … » Read

Last May, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Managing Director Jan Raes announced that he would resign at the end of December 2019. Whether that was related to the firing of and subsequent peace-making with Music Director Daniele Gatti, over … » Read

Alex Johnston will leave his two-year job as general manager of National Sawdust to become the new director of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) DiMenna Center for Classical Music. He succeeds John Glover who left in September to be the new … » Read

At ten, Yannick Nézet-Séguin decided he wanted to be a conductor when he grew up, a decision from which he never wavered. “I was abnormally intense,” he tells an interviewer from The New York Times . “At that … » Read

MILAN--Plácido Domingo received a standing ovation for his 50th-anniversary gala concert at La Scala on Sunday and returned the appreciation with a rare a cappella performance. Standing alone on the stage holding three yellow roses, … » Read

The Paris Conservatory—Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP)—has named it first woman director. Émilie Delorme, current director of the Academy at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, is to … » Read

As American conductor David Robertson makes his exit as chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra this month, the orchestra announces that his successor will be native daughter Simone Young, effective in 2022. For the year prior, … » Read

Kendra Whitlock Ingram, executive director of the University of Denver’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts since 2016, is to be the new president and CEO of Milwaukee’s Marcus Performing Arts Center. The first woman to hold the … » Read