About a year ago, as he stepped down after 11 years as CEO of The Florida Orchestra, Michael Pastreich said, “Now it’s time to take a break, recharge and explore my own opportunities.” At the time, he gave no indication as to … » Read

The Manhattan-based Little Orchestra Society (LOS), now in its 71 st season, has appointed David Alan Miller as its artistic advisor. James Judd, its music director of the last five seasons, stepped down in February, although his name and title … » Read

Marilyn Mason, a concert organist who commissioned over 70 works from living composers and studied briefly with Arnold Schoenberg and Nadia Boulanger, died on April 4. She was 93 and lived in Fort Lauderdale. Among the key points of her career, … » Read

Lorenzo Viotti, 29, is to be the new chief conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic and Dutch National Opera as of the 2021-22 season. He succeeds Marc Albrecht, who exits at the end of 2019-20 after ten years in the dual post. The Netherlands … » Read

Rob Bailis, recent interim artistic director and associate director of Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley, is to be artistic and executive director of California’s Eli & Edythe Broad Stage at the Santa Monica … » Read

Two weeks ago, The Washington Post ran a story about Eddie Adams , 20, the principal cellist of the George Mason University Orchestra who had grown up in poverty and for whom the cello was a lifelong lifeline. Adams was so impoverished, he had to … » Read

It’s been three seasons since Frank Huang left as concertmaster of the Houston Symphony to take the same position with the New York Philharmonic. In the interim, the Texas orchestra has been trying out possible successors—a total of … » Read

Austrian conductor Katharina Wincor [pictured], 24, has been appointed assistant conductor of the Dallas Symphony, as part of the orchestra’s ongoing mission to promote women conductors and composers. She starts in September, overseeing … » Read

The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro has named Bruce D. McClung as the dean of its College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA), as of July 14, 2019. McClung is currently an associate professor of musicology at the University of … » Read

It appears that the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and its former chief conductor Daniele Gatti have made up, after a fashion. The orchestra fired Gatti in August 2018 after he was accused in a July 26 Washington Post article of sexual abuse. At … » Read