The Grant Park Music Festival, an annual free summer event and concert series in Chicago’s Millennium Park, has said that Paul Winberg, its president and CEO for the last 14 years, will step down as of spring 2026. His tenure has been … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Jack DeJohnette, a celebrated jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis on his landmark 1970 fusion album and collaborated with Keith Jarrett and a vast array of other jazz greats, has died at 83. The acclaimed drummer, … » Read

French conductor Lucie Leguay, 35, is to be the next music director of the Sinfonietta de Lausanne, effective in September of 2026 for three years. She succeeds David Reiland, in the job for three successive terms. Sinfonietta de Lausanne traces … » Read

The U.K.’s National Youth Orchestra (NYO) has appointed Lucy Bayliss as director of engagement & partnerships, a newly created position, effective in mid-November. Her remit, according to the announcement is “to open up orchestral … » Read

Just on the heels of receiving the 2025 Birgit Nilsson Prize , the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence has announced its General Director as noted opera director Ted Huffman. His five-year contract is effective as of January 1, 2026.  Huffman, … » Read

Conductor Ken-David Masur, music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, is to be the newest artistic partner for the Oregon Bach Festival, which the University of Oregon describes … » Read

Connecticut-based composer Kyle Rivera will be the fifth recipient of the Emerging Black Composers Prize (EBCP), renamed the Michael Morgan Prize in 2023 in honor of the late Oakland Symphony music director. The prize includes a $15,000 … » Read

Katie Mitchell, the director whose feminist stagings during the past three decades have won praise and caused controversy, is retiring from opera. “I’m definitely bringing my work in opera to a close because of the misogyny,” … » Read

When Hongni Wu bounded across the stage as Cherubino in Santa Fe Opera’s Marriage of Figaro last summer , she seemed to compress a teenager’s swirl of conflicted emotions into a single breath. Under Laurent Pelly’s ingenious … » Read

Benita Valente, a lyric soprano whose four-decade career established her as one of America’s greatest recitalists as well as a much- admired performer in opera, chamber music, and with orchestras, died in Philadelphia on Oct. 24. She was … » Read