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

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was anything but the tragic figure that history has portrayed. So argues Prof. Simon Morrison, a professor of music and Slavic languages and literatures at Princeton University, in his forthcoming biography, … » Read

Having recently  launched a “music creation” track toward a new BS in Music Production, Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music has developed another new BS focus area, this one in Music Business, a collaboration with … » Read

Seventeen-year-old Julin Cheung [pictured] will officially join the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as the new assistant principal flute and piccolo player next April, when he graduates from Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. He began … » Read

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived Auschwitz because she could play the cello. Born in 1925 to a German-Jewish family living in what is today Wroclaw, Poland, she and her two sisters played chamber music together as children. When she was arrested … » Read

Less than a year from now, Esa-Pekka Salonen will become one of the most sought-after free agents in the world of classical music. His decision not to renew his contract with the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) when it expires in 2025 due to his … » Read

The recent news that John Eliot Gardiner would not be returning to the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra (MCO) after almost a year’s absence following his physical assault on a chorister last August would seem to have settled the matter. But … » Read