The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has hired two new assistant conductors, one assigned to the CSO and the May Festival and one to the Cincinnati Pops and to the youth orchestra. In the CSO position, succeeding Keitaro Harada, is François … » Read

Romanian pianist Radu Lupu will retire from the concert stage at the conclusion of the 2018-19 season. The 73-year-old maestro, who refuses interviews and last recorded 25 years ago, has been in ill-health and was forced to cancel performance … » Read

Since André Previn’s death last February, his friend and longtime editor David Fetherolf has been at work completing Penelope , a final commission based on Homer’s Odyssey with a text by Tom Stoppard. The work, commissioned by … » Read

Last month, Teodor Currentzis [pictured] resigned as artistic director of the Perm State Opera and Ballet Theater, a position he had held since 2011. Currentzis, chief conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra and founder and head of MusicAeterna, … » Read

Vivian Perlis, the music historian who launched the invaluable  Oral History of American Music at Yale University, died on July 4 at the age of 91. As Libby Van Cleve writes in her  tribute article when Ms. Perlis was named Musical … » Read

Aaron Rosand, famed violinist and pedagogue, died on July 9 at the age of 92. A member of the class of 1948 of the Curtis Institute, Rosand made his professional recital debut at age nine in a recital at Chicago’s Civic Opera House and … » Read

Marcus L. Overton, a passionate and colorful 54-year veteran of performing arts administration as well as an Emmy award-winning radio and TV host, died at age 75 on June 9 in San Diego, after a long battle with kidney disease.   … » Read

Another major artist has left Columbia Artists, this one with plans for a significant change in repertoire. Deborah Voigt has moved to the year-old, San Francisco-based Promethean Artists, with which she plans to ease off opera and concentrate … » Read

ORANGE, FR -- When Peter Gelb took over New York's legendary Metropolitan Opera in 2006, one of his jobs was to organize a farewell for Placido Domingo. But 13 years later the indefatigable Spanish tenor is still "the king of opera," headlining … » Read

Austrian conductor Hans Graf is to be chief conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) as of the 2020-21 season. Graf, onetime music director of the Houston Symphony, among others, will succeed Chinese American Lan Shui, who stepped down … » Read