Colin Michael Brush is the new director of the Sarah and Ernest Butler Houston Grand Opera Studio. He succeeds Brian Speck, in the position since 2015, and comes to Houston from ADA Artists/UIA Talent in Berlin, where he managed a roster of … » Read

Amy Cassello, associate director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music since 2020, is to serve as its artistic director on an interim basis, following the exit of David Binder in July . Binder will remain as advisor until 2024. Cassello arrived at BAM … » Read

As the new music director of the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H), Jonathan Cohen lives a somewhat peripatetic existence. The 45-year-old Briton makes his home in London, where his 12-year-old son lives, but finds himself on an airplane frequently. … » Read

Anticipating the departure of its chief conductor, Matthias Bamert, in March of 2024, the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra has announced Tatsuya Shimono as principal guest conductor beginning in April 2024. One year later, Elias Grandy will assume the … » Read

The Cleveland Institute of Music’s high-profile faculty remain in the news with the resignation of Michael Sachs, principal trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra and chair of the CIM brass department. His exit follows the recent leave taken by … » Read

There seem to be “multiple Nosedas,” suggests critic David Patrick Stearns when scrutinizing the space(s) conductor Gianandrea Noseda (Musical America’s 2015 Conductor of the Year ) currently occupies in the classical music … » Read

Central City Opera, which came close to losing its entire summer season due to  thorny AGMA negotiations that went on for more than six months, has named Scott Finlay as its new president and CEO. He succeeds Pamela Pantos, who exited rather … » Read

Pasadena Symphony and POPS has named Andrew Brown to succeed Lora Unger as its CEO, following Unger’s departure in May to become executive director of the Performing Arts Center Eastside in Bellevue, WA. COO Drew Flaherty has been … » Read

In a famous 1917 essay “The Sahara of the Bozart,” the acid-tongued critic H. L. Mencken dismissed the South’s cultural life as “an awe-inspiring blank.” One can only wonder what he would make of the decision by a … » Read

James Jorden, founder and editor extraordinaire of Parterre Box: The Queer Opera Zine , aka Parterre.com, perhaps the most read opera website in the business, has died. He was 69. Information as to the cause is not immediately available; he was … » Read