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Ojai Names Its 2025 Music Director

April 10, 2024 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
In keeping with its trend-setting model of appointing a new music director every season, the Ojai Music Festival will follow Mitsuko Uchida’s upcoming June 6-9 2024 tenure with one of a completely different—one could even say … » Read
 

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Orchestra Additions: Philly, Chicago, Cleveland, Seattle

April 9, 2024 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Charlie Rosmarin has joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as associate principal percussion. With four years at the New World Symphony, Rosmarin has performed with the major orchestras of Boston, Houston, Atlanta, San Francisco, and New York, among … » Read
 

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BSO Principal Flute to Exit at Season's End

April 9, 2024 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
Why does “one of the finest flutists in the country, if not the world” decide to step aside from her dream job as principal flute with the Boston Symphony Orchestra before her 50th birthday? It’s not because she was pushed out, … » Read
 

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Oakland Symphony Names Music Director

April 9, 2024 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
Kedrick Armstrong is to succeed the late Michael Morgan as music director of the Oakland Symphony, effective immediately. Armstrong, who last led the orchestra in February in the premiere of Carlos Simon’s Here I Stand , is the 29-year-old … » Read
 

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New CEO for Britten Pears Arts

April 8, 2024 | Anthony Brown, Musical America
Andrew Comben will assume the position of chief executive officer at Britten Pears Arts in September 2024. He succeeds Roger Wright, who has been in the position for ten years and announced his decision to step down in July 2023, on the eve of … » Read
 

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Salzburg Renews Artistic Director for 5 More Years

April 5, 2024 | Associated Press
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
 

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Pacific Symphony Launches 1st Music Director Search in 35 Years

April 5, 2024 | Taylor Grant, Musical America
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
 

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New Strings in Academia

April 4, 2024 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
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
 

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Songs Composed by Women, Winningly Rendered & Recorded

April 3, 2024 | Clive Paget, Musical America
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
 

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The Blond Boy-wonder Phenom

April 3, 2024 | Susan Elliott, Musical America
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
 
 

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