Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) has two new musicians among its ranks. Erik Rynearson [pictured] is the new principal viola and Erick Jovel the new permanent second trumpet. Both are SoCal natives and represent Music Director Designate Jaime … » Read

Another top public relations staffer has left the Lincoln Center campus. Last week it was reported that Katherine Johnson had left the New York Philharmonic as VP of communications. Now Alexandra Day, the Juilliard School’s VP of public … » Read

Juan Diego Flórez has left the role of Alfredo in the Met’s run of La Traviata earlier than scheduled. The company reports he is ill and so has withdrawn from the December 26 performance. Stephen Costello, already slated to sing … » Read

Composer/conductor Tan Dun will assume the newly created position of dean of the Bard College Conservatory of Music next July. Dun, whose composing and conducting accolades include Grammy awards, Oscars, and the Grawemeyer, holds a masters degree … » Read

Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla’s much anticipated New York Philharmonic debut, scheduled for concerts January 3-5, has been postponed, “due to maternity/family leave following the birth of her first child,” according … » Read

Laura R. Walker, longtime president and CEO of New York Public Radio, announced yesterday that she would step down in March. Walker, 61, has been with WNYC since 1995; over time she has created a major non-profit, independent media company with … » Read

Stephen Marc Beaudoin is a tenor in the 160-voice Washington Chorus. As of February 4, he is also the executive director. The group has been searching for a permanent exec since Dianne Peterson left in June of 2016 after over three decades in the … » Read

Two years ago, Chad Cooper turned his back on his 16-year Wall Street career as a managing director at Deutsche Bank to become executive director of the nearly insolvent Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (BCM). “I realized I could continue on … » Read

For years composer Julia Wolfe walked by 23-29 Washington Place, between Greene Street and Washington Square East in Greenwich Village, on her way to teaching classes in music composition at New York University. A small plaque on the Brown … » Read

Alistair Mackie, London Philharmonia’s interim managing director and joint principal trumpet, is to be the new CEO of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), starting in April. He succeeds Krishna Thiagarajan, who in June was named … » Read