It can hardly be a coincidence that UMich violin professor Stephen Shipps will be retiring in May. Shipps, former chair of strings and faculty director of the school's Strings Preparatory Academy, has been accused of sexual misconduct. A Dec. 10 … » Read

The Florida Orchestra has chosen the CEO of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra as its next president and CEO. Mark Cantrell, a onetime airline pilot and sled-dog racer, is to succeed Michael Pastreich, who left in July after more than a decade in … » Read

Chinese American pianist Eric Lu [pictured], 20, has signed with Columbia Artists for North American representation. Lu, winner of the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition , first came to international attention as a prize winner at the … » Read

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has hired Ryan Lewis [pictured], VP of marketing for Opera Philadelphia as its new VP of sales and marketing. He succeeds J. Philip Koester ( Phil) Koester, who left in August to be VP of marketing and … » Read

Galt MacDermot, composer of Hair and Two Gentlemen of Verona , among many others, died yesterday, one day before his 90 th birthday and two days before the start of the 50 th anniversary tour of Hair, which continues to be an international … » Read

Yuja Wang, Musical America’s 2017 Artist of the Year , has joined Intermusica for worldwide general management. In so doing, she exits Fidelio, with whom she has been affiliated for about six years. Fidelio represents three (major) artists; … » Read

Matthew Aucoin recently learned that it is sometimes important to answer the telephone, even when the read-out shows “Caller Blocked.” After ignoring several such calls from Chicago, he finally took the call and learned he had been … » Read

On Dec. 16 Vijay Gupta played his last performance as a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A recipient of a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship—a $625,000 no-strings attached grant over five years—the 31-year-old first violinist and social … » Read

Katherine Johnson has left her post as VP of Communications for the New York Philharmonic. She is moving to North Carolina to join the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) in a new position, director of media relations and … » Read

On Monday, an article appeared in The Michigan Daily , UMich’s student newspaper, accusing Stephen Shipps, chair of the strings department and director of the university's strings preparatory division, of sexual misconduct. The story has … » Read