Charles Wadsworth, founding artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, in 1969, and often credited with the robust health of chamber music in this country, died on May 29 in at a medical facility on Manhattan’s Upper … » Read

The Orchestre classique de Montréal (OCM) has announced Romanian-Canadian conductor Andrei Feher as its new music director. He succeeds J acques Lacomb who exited after the first year of a five-year contract l ast July, citing … » Read

Mette Bryndum is the new executive director of the Moab Music Festival. A native of Copenhagen, and now a resident of Moab, Utah, Bryndum will team with Tessa Lark, the Festival’s artistic director and renowned violinist. Lark wrote of … » Read

“Working with Esa-Pekka is the most deeply satisfying culmination of my work at the Ojai Festival and a fitting moment for me to conclude my tenure as artistic and executive director.“  With this statement, several paragraphs … » Read

Lee Koonce has been chosen as the inaugural executive director of the 34-member Fenimore Chamber Orchestra, located in Cooperstown, NY. The four-year-old ensemble, founded during the pandemic, presents a five-concert season under Artistic … » Read

The arts and media programs at Atlanta’s Georgia State University (GSU) are welcoming new faculty and administrators. On March 31 Julia Bullard was announced as the new director of the School of Music in the College of the Arts at Georgia … » Read

During his ten years as music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden is widely credited with dramatically improving the ensemble’s precision and flexibility. This  did not come easily, according to some of the … » Read

American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen has been chosen by the Met Opera to receive its annual $50,000 Beverly Sills Award, which honors “extraordinary singers with rising Met careers.” Her most recent Met appearance was as … » Read

Kenneth Renshaw is to join the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in August as assistant professor of violin. Renshaw, active as a soloist and chamber musician internationally, first came into the limelight when he … » Read

Daniele Gatti, who, it may be recalled, was fired from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw for “inappropriate behavior” at that location and, ultimately, elsewhere, has cancelled all his future La Scala engagements. Anticipating that he was … » Read