Markus Hinterhäuser has been given a third five-year term as artistic director of the Salzburg Festiva l , extending his tenure in one of Europe’s most influential cultural roles to the longest since Herbert von Karajan’s reign … » Read

The Pacific Symphony, the largest U.S. orchestra founded in the last 50 years, is beginning to search for only the second music director in its 45-year history. Carl St.Clair, in the position for 35 years, is expected to step aside at the … » Read

NEA Jazz master violinist Regina Carter [pictured] has joined the faculty of UCLA’s Herb Albert School of Music. As of next fall, she’ll teach jazz performance and history and urban musical culture; she’ll also work with … » Read

That a 28-year-old inexperienced and oversubscribed Finnish conductor will steer the course of two of the world’s most important orchestras come 2027—the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra—has … » Read

Tilman Michael, chorus master of the Frankfurt Opera for the past ten seasons, will succeed Donald Palumbo as chorus director of the Metropolitan Opera, effective with the 2024-25 season and arriving next summer to prepare. Palumbo, 75, announced … » Read

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music has appointed Michael Tilson Thomas as its first and only distinguished professor of music, effective next fall. His term begins concurrent with the release of a boxed set devoted to new and previously … » Read

Will Liverman follows up 2021’s Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers with an ambitious and equally impressive double disc Show Me the Way . An all-female composer program is echoed in the American baritone’s choice of a … » Read

One of today’s most performed young composers, is an unapologetic advocate for the power of melody. “I find emotional connection through melody…. I think it’s a way to connect human beings,” Anna Clyne tells … » Read

Choral Arts Society of Washington, D.C., its 60 th anniversary coming in 2025, has announced Marie Bucoy-Calavan as its next artistic director as of next season. She succeeds Jace Kaholokula Saplan who left after 18 months in the job. Saplan is … » Read

In what may be the worst-kept secret about the world’s youngest, most oversubscribed music director, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has named 28-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä to succeed the legendary Riccardo Muti as its … » Read