The Boston-based Handel and Haydn Society has added three new principal players to its ranks. Emi Ferguson [pictured] is the new principal flute, succeeding Christopher Krueger who retired at end of last season after 40 years with H+H. Heather … » Read

Gianandrea Noseda is wasting no time in bringing new musicians into the National Symphony Orchestra. He’s been music director just over one year and, as of yesterday, has already brought in eight new members. Added to the six he appointed … » Read

American conductor Michael Christie has been announced as the new music director of the New West Symphony, resident company of the Thousand Oaks (CA) Civic Arts Plaza. He was one of four finalists to succeed Marcello Lehninger, who left last year … » Read

Countertenor David Daniels, besieged by a series of accusations of sexual misconduct, has filed a counterclaim against Andrew Lipian, who alleges the  singer assaulted him while he was a master's degree student at the University of … » Read

Cellist Aldo Parisot, the longest serving faculty member in Yale University’s history, died on December 29 at the age of 100. Parisot, whose students included the likes of Carter Brey and Ralph Kirshbaum, only retired from teaching last … » Read

As John Fisher  heads back to Wales to head up the new David Seligman Opera School at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, he exits his post at the Met Opera as assistant general manager for music administration. Today, the Met … » Read

NEW YORK--The contemplative aura that gently emanates from Michael Vincent Waller ’s music suggests a hard-won focus on the essential, distilled from long decades of reflection and experience. But the composer was already shaping this … » Read

NEW YORK--The fireworks start early this New Year's Eve at the Metropolitan Opera, where two jealous divas locked in a deadly rivalry will be setting off sparks in a new production of Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur. Russian soprano Anna … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra musicians have reached and ratified a three-year contract agreement with management, effective in the current season through 2020/2021. The orchestra, which ended fiscal 2018 in the red, with a deficit of $1.3 million on a … » Read

The Center for the Arts of Jackson Hole, WY, whose programming ranges across all genres and disciplines, has named David J. Rothman to the newly established post of president and CEO. He starts January 7. The Center boasts that it is home to 19 … » Read