Lee Anne Myslewski [pictured] has been elected to serve as the new board chair of OPERA America through June 30, 2025, completing the term of Susan G. Marineau following her resignation due to health reasons. Myslewski, OPERA America’s vice … » Read

Giancarlo Guerrero, current music director of the Nashville Symphony, is to take the same post with the Sarasota (FL) Orchestra, first as designate, next season, then in the role officially as of fall 2025. The 55-year-old Nicaraguan native has … » Read

The Walla Walla (WA) Symphony, which traces its origins to 1907, has installed Dina Gilbert as its new music director, as of July 1. The successor to the late Yaacov Bergman, Gilbert, assistant conductor of the Montreal Symphony, first led her … » Read

More longtime Chicago Symphony Orchestra players are retiring. While trombonist Jay Friedman will leave at the end of next season , percussionist James Ross and cellist Loren Brown will make their official exits this summer; Brown has in fact … » Read

The Nashville Symphony has hired Jeff vom Saal as its chief operating officer (COO), effective in September. Vom Saal was for eight years the executive director of the Spokane (WA) Symphony, the most recent of a number of management positions … » Read

In a recent article, composer Anna Clyne describes how she came to purchase--and ultimately play--her first violin. It all began in a thrift store in Oxford in 2008, where she had been browsing through second-hand CDs and LPs. Her eye fell upon … » Read

Eberhard Friedrich, 66, chorus master at the Bayreuth Festival for some 25 years, has resigned, one year prior to his anticipated retirement in 2025. The move is characterized by local media as “unnecessary,” or at the very least … » Read

Although he was born without a right hand and most of his right forearm, Adrian Anantawan was determined to learn to play the violin. A team at Toronto’s Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital helped him do that, fashioning a … » Read

Over the past 25 years, Michael Haefliger has made the Lucerne Festival into one of the world’s premier summer musical events, working with Claudio Abbado to create the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Pierre Boulez to launch the … » Read

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University is in the process of adding new orchestra and opera faculty, bringing Cristian Macelaru, an alumnus, on board as a distinguished visiting artist from fall 2025 to spring 2028, and Patrick Summers, … » Read