French conductor Lucie Leguay has joined Askonas Holt for worldwide management. Having won the 2023 Victoires de la Musique Classique “Révélation, Conductor” award, she is making a series of major debuts in the current … » Read

Gabriel Feltz, acting general music director of the City of Dortmund, is to move to Kiel, a coastal city in the north of Germany, to take the title of director of general music of the state capital and the Kiel Theater. Feltz, 53, studied at the … » Read

Belgian conductor Koen Kessels [pictured] is to be music director of Dutch National Ballet and artistic director/principal conductor of Dutch Ballet Orchestra as of August 2024. Kessels is the current music director of the U.K.’s Royal … » Read

In France, Opéra de Lille will welcome a new director, when Barbara Eckle arrives on July 1, 2025 to succeed Caroline Sonrier, in the position since 2003. Eckle was dramaturg at the Ruhrtriennale International Festival of Arts from 2020 to … » Read

Scottish conductor Donald Runnicles will become chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic as of 2025-26, serving as designate starting in fall of 2024. He succeeds Marek Janowski, principal conductor from 2001-2003 and again from 2019 until … » Read

The University of Arizona’s School of Music has announced the departure of composer Daniel Asia , who heads the composition department, at the end of the school year. He has been with UA since 1988 and is one of the university’s … » Read

San Francisco Symphony has said that its Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas will not be on the podium for two of the three programs he is scheduled to conduct--January 18–20 and February 23–25--for health reasons. The … » Read

Marlena Kleinman Malas, who taught many of the era’s best known opera singers, died on Dec. 4 at age 87. An accomplished mezzo-soprano, Malas studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School before embarking on a career … » Read

LOS ANGELES — Barbra Streisand will receive the lifetime achievement award at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The Yentl and The Prince of Tides star will be the 59th recipient of the SAG-AFTRA tribute on Feb. 24 at Los Angeles’ … » Read

Susan Miller Kotses, current VP of education and community engagement at the Pacific Symphony, is to become executive director of the Los Angeles Chlldren’s Chorus (LACC) as of February 8. She succeeds Kurt Swanson, an area arts consultant … » Read