The Cincinnati May Festival, in its second year of a new business model that appoints a new director every season, has announced Renée Fleming for that position as of its next edition, the weekends of May 16 and 22. Fleming, whose exit … » Read

Birth order is what initially led Sterling Elliott to the cello. His mother, Dannielle Weems-Elliott, began teaching his two older siblings at a young age, emulating the method she herself had learned as a Suzuki violin student. Sterling watched … » Read

More than a decade after a 2011 accident in which she was injured in a fall from a platform at the Metropolitan Opera, mezzo-soprano Wendy White and the company have reached an agreement on the eve of her lawsuit going to trial. While singing the … » Read

In 2019 Lara St. John spoke to the Philadelphia Inquirer about how, as a 14-year-old student at the Curtis Institute in the mid-1980s, her teacher, famed violinist Jascha Brodsky, raped and sexually abused her. The school’s failure to … » Read

Ken-David Masur will step down as music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) at the end of the 2025-2026 season, after seven years in the position. The 47-year-old maestro arrived in Milwaukee at the start of the 2019-2020 season … » Read

Clément Joubert has been chosen as the new executive director of the Festival de Lanaudière, Canada’s largest classical music festival. He succeeds Xavier Roy, who stepped down this past August after four years in the … » Read

Music Masters has selected Stuart Mason as the new chair of its board of trustees, on which he has served since 2021. He succeeds Simon Freakley, who held the position for twelve years. Mason is joined on the board by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason; … » Read

Times are apparently tough at Brandeis University. Admissions are down, forcing a number of belt-tightening measures. One casualty is the Lydian String Quartet, a foursome established at the university in 1980, whose members were told on an Oct. … » Read

This year marks the centenary of Gabriel Fauré’s death. Known to most for his Requiem and Pavane, cellist Steven Isserlis makes a compelling case in The Guardian for the French composer’s larger importance. Born in 1845, … » Read

Michael Shinn has been named as executive director of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, a position he initially assumed in August of 2023 as interim. He moves into the job as Berklee awaits the arrival of its new president in January , Jim … » Read