The Cleveland Orchestra has a new first associate concertmaster in Liyuan Xie , who arrives in the job just one year after he joined the orchestra’s second violin section as a recent graduate of the New England Conservatory. He succeeds … » Read

Suzanne Wilson will succeed Tony Beadle as president and CEO of Rockport (MA) Music as of July 1; she arrives after time in London with family, having previously served a brief term at the helm of the Phoenix Symphony and, before that, seven … » Read

Krzysztof Urbánski takes on two new key roles as of 2024-25: chief conductor of Switzerland’s Berner Symphonieorchester and music and artistic director of Warsaw Philharmonic, an orchestra he knows well having served as its assistant … » Read

Within the last two months, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has announced six new faculty members, most of them effective as of August 1. Vincent Carbone is the exception, starting July 1 as academic specialist and managing director … » Read

Amy Lam, founder and principal of the Lamling Consulting Group, is to serve as interim executive director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, which this year runs from July 14 to August 19. David Kitto, named to the post last fall , has had … » Read

Just on the heels of the departure of its development and chief advancement VP , Juilliard is losing another key staffer in Rosalie Contreras, VP of public affairs. She leaves in July and will be succeeded by Mary Caraccioli a former  … » Read

"The Canadian Opera Company (COC) is today announcing that General Director Perryn Leech will be moving on from the organization by mutual agreement. David C. Ferguson has been appointed as Interim General Director, effective immediately. We … » Read

Emily Fritz-Endres is to be the next executive director of the Albany Symphony Orchestra as of August. She succeeds David Hyslop , who has been serving as interim since January, three months after the departure of Anna Kuwabara. Fritz-Endes is a … » Read

Tabita Berglund , who becomes principal guest conductor of the Detroit Symphony as of next season , will take the same role with the Dresden Philharmonic as of 2025-26. Her debut with the orchestra last November, conducting Sibelius’s … » Read

Retirements in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra have prompted several new appointments, along with promotions within. In the former category, the PSO has announced a new associate principal cello in Korea-born Dale Jeong, age 21 (three years … » Read