Peter Eötvös, composer and tireless advocate for contemporary music, died in Budapest on March 24, after a long illness. He was 80. Born in Transylvania to a musical family, Eötvös studied composition under Zoltán … » Read

ROME (AP) — Maurizio Pollini, a Grammy-winning Italian pianist who performed internationally and frequently at La Scala opera house in Milan, has died. He was 82. Pollini died on Saturday, La Scala said in a statement. The announcement … » Read

Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv could be excused were she distracted by the horrific events in her homeland while she leads performances of Puccini’s Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera this spring. After learning of a Russian missile … » Read

The musicians of the San Francisco Symphony have laid down a marker, telling the orchestra’s management and board of directors in no uncertain terms that they don’t want Esa-Pekka Salonen to leave. In flyers distributed to … » Read

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has named Mark Wigglesworth and Chloé Van Soeterstède as the ensemble’s respective new chief conductor and principal guest conductor. Each will begin a four-year term with the start of the … » Read

Although his tenure as music director will last another 15 months or so, the autopsy of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s time with the San Francisco Symphony has already begun. What “all began so promisingly,” writes Joshua Kosman in the San … » Read

Aribert Reimann, who adapted serialism to create his own language, died on March 13 in Berlin, the city where he had been born into a musical family. He was 88. Trained as a lieder accompanist from an early age, a skill he would deploy on … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Byron Janis, a renowned American concert pianist and composer who broke barriers as a Cold War era culture ambassador and later overcame severe arthritis that nearly robbed him of his playing abilities, has died. He was 95. … » Read

It’s not new news that the arts are in trouble, especially in the wake of the pandemic. In fact, it is fair to say that the arts almost always seem to exist amid exigent circumstances, the result of generally indifferent public funding … » Read

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, who took office on Jan. 1, has tapped Valerie Gay to be the city’s new arts and culture czar. City arts leaders greeted the appointment as well as the mayor’s apparent intention to elevate the … » Read