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

On Aug. 11, nearly two years after he withdrew from conducting, Daniel Barenboim made a return to the podium at the Proms. “It was the concert many suspected we would never hear,” writes Martin Kettle in The Guardian . He was … » Read

Lorenzo Viotti is to be music director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, with a three-year contract commencing with the 2026-27 season. He succeeds Jonathan Nott, who departs after 12 years at the conclusion of the 2025-26 season. A native of … » Read