Janet Cowperthwaite, who has spent 43 years helping to make the Kronos Quartet one of the music world’s most admired and innovative foursomes, has announced that she will step down next October. Her decision elicited fulsome praise from … » Read

Keitaro Harada, music and artistic director of the Savannah (GA) and “permanent conductor” of the Tokyo Symphony, will add the Dayton (OH) Philharmonic to his CV, with the title of music and artistic director. Along with the Dayton … » Read

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who helped form millions of childhoods by penning the instantly memorable songs for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang … » Read

Hugues Randolph Gall, longtime general director of the Paris Opera, died on May 25 at age 84. Born in Honfleur, Germany, he began his professional career working for several government ministries, before joining the Paris Opera in 1973, first as … » Read

The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) has chosen the three-time Grammy Award winning violinist Hilary Hahn as visiting professor for a 12-month period beginning in September 2024. In the press release announcing Hahn’s appointment, Graham … » Read

Peggy Kriha Miller, who joined the Virginia Opera as general director and CEO in October 2020, will be leaving in 2025, citing her desire to prioritize her family. Miller, who succeeded President and CEO Russell P. Allen when he retired, arrived … » Read

In classical music, the infrequency with which a Black musician finds individual success is all too well known. Blind orchestra auditions may have helped to increase the number of women in American ensembles—by 2022 it was up to 47 … » Read

Growing up in coastal Georgetown, SC (population: 8,500), Kedrick Armstrong became his church’s keyboardist at age 12 and picked up the clarinet in his school’s band program. But Armstrong couldn’t shake the feeling that there … » Read

David Chan, concertmaster of New York’s MET Orchestra for the past 24 years, is expanding his portfolio as a conductor, becoming the new principal conductor for the Apollo Orchestra. Since its founding in 2010, the Washington, D.C.-based … » Read

Florida Grand Opera, now in its 82 nd season, has promoted its interim general director to the post permanently. Maria Todaro arrived last October taking over from Susan Danis, whose emphasis on contemporary work allegedly was at odds with the … » Read