For nearly 50 years, Anne-Sophie Mutter has lived an artist’s life that is both glorious and draining. In an interview with the German business publication Handelsblatt , she offers insights to how she has maintained a spot at the pinnacle … » Read

Chicago was once a new music town that didn’t take itself too seriously. The birthplace of improv comedy fostered a highly collegial, casual scene where laughter and onstage quips flowed as easily as the drinks. That approachable ease … » Read

The Pasadena Symphony, which performs about six classical concerts a year, has elevated Artistic Partner Brett Mitchell to the position of music director, as of April 1, 2024. He succeeds David Lockington, who exited in 2022. The symphony, which … » Read

Peter Eötvös, composer and tireless advocate for contemporary music, died in Budapest on March 24, after a long illness. He was 80. Born in Transylvania to a musical family, Eötvös studied composition under Zoltán … » Read

ROME (AP) — Maurizio Pollini, a Grammy-winning Italian pianist who performed internationally and frequently at La Scala opera house in Milan, has died. He was 82. Pollini died on Saturday, La Scala said in a statement. The announcement … » Read

Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv could be excused were she distracted by the horrific events in her homeland while she leads performances of Puccini’s Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera this spring. After learning of a Russian missile … » Read

The musicians of the San Francisco Symphony have laid down a marker, telling the orchestra’s management and board of directors in no uncertain terms that they don’t want Esa-Pekka Salonen to leave. In flyers distributed to … » Read

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has named Mark Wigglesworth and Chloé Van Soeterstède as the ensemble’s respective new chief conductor and principal guest conductor. Each will begin a four-year term with the start of the … » Read

Although his tenure as music director will last another 15 months or so, the autopsy of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s time with the San Francisco Symphony has already begun. What “all began so promisingly,” writes Joshua Kosman in the San … » Read

Aribert Reimann, who adapted serialism to create his own language, died on March 13 in Berlin, the city where he had been born into a musical family. He was 88. Trained as a lieder accompanist from an early age, a skill he would deploy on … » Read