After two-and-a-half years, Christopher T. Barton is leaving as executive director of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra . No reason has been given, although in a press release the orchestra expresses gratitude for his contributions. In his place … » Read

Opera Philadelphia’s recent staging of Benjamin Britten’s  A Midsummer Night’s Dream was notable not just for the first U.S. landfall of Robert Carsen’s iconic production, it also happened to be immaculately cast. … » Read

FORT WORTH—The Cliburn has announced that conductor Marin Alsop will become the first woman to chair the jury for the Sixteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2021. The event will take place from May 28 until June 12 in Fort … » Read

The San Antonio Symphony (SAS) has announced that Sebastian Lang-Lessing will step down as the company’s music director in 2020 after 10 tumultuous years at the orchestra’s helm. The German conductor, whose international commitments … » Read

Carnegie Hall today announced that Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii will replace Murray Perahia who has regretfully withdrawn from his scheduled May 10 recital for medical reasons. Tsujii will perform works by Satie (the three Gymnopédies … » Read

SAN DIEGO—American soprano Susan Narucki has been named as inaugural Director of Arts and Community Engagement at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). Narucki, an influential advocate for new music who made her professional … » Read

BOCA RATON—A 100-year-old orchestral player has been making the news this week. Melvin Lazerick told Florida’s CBS12 News that he is no musician, but he does admit to being an integral part of the 70-piece Florida Intergenerational … » Read

SANTA MONICA—Universal Music Group (UMG) has announced a new unified management structure for its Classics and Jazz Division in what it calls an attempt to focus its worldwide artist development and marketing strategy under a unified … » Read

He was for many years associated with Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland , turning out ten brilliant orchestral works and an opera based on that literary theme, over the course of a quarter of a century. Of those efforts, Final Alice … » Read

Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia, a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer, described as “one of the finest scholars in all of post-colonial Africa,” died on March 13 in Legon, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital of Accra. He was 97. During … » Read