Kedrick Armstrong is to succeed the late Michael Morgan as music director of the Oakland Symphony, effective immediately. Armstrong, who last led the orchestra in February in the premiere of Carlos Simon’s Here I Stand , is the 29-year-old … » Read

Charlie Rosmarin has joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as associate principal percussion. With four years at the New World Symphony, Rosmarin has performed with the major orchestras of Boston, Houston, Atlanta, San Francisco, and New York, among … » Read

Why does “one of the finest flutists in the country, if not the world” decide to step aside from her dream job as principal flute with the Boston Symphony Orchestra before her 50th birthday? It’s not because she was pushed out, … » Read

Andrew Comben will assume the position of chief executive officer at Britten Pears Arts in September 2024. He succeeds Roger Wright, who has been in the position for ten years and announced his decision to step down in July 2023, on the eve of … » Read

Markus Hinterhäuser has been given a third five-year term as artistic director of the Salzburg Festiva l , extending his tenure in one of Europe’s most influential cultural roles to the longest since Herbert von Karajan’s reign … » Read

The Pacific Symphony, the largest U.S. orchestra founded in the last 50 years, is beginning to search for only the second music director in its 45-year history. Carl St.Clair, in the position for 35 years, is expected to step aside at the … » Read

NEA Jazz master violinist Regina Carter [pictured] has joined the faculty of UCLA’s Herb Albert School of Music. As of next fall, she’ll teach jazz performance and history and urban musical culture; she’ll also work with … » Read

That a 28-year-old inexperienced and oversubscribed Finnish conductor will steer the course of two of the world’s most important orchestras come 2027—the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra—has … » Read

Tilman Michael, chorus master of the Frankfurt Opera for the past ten seasons, will succeed Donald Palumbo as chorus director of the Metropolitan Opera, effective with the 2024-25 season and arriving next summer to prepare. Palumbo, 75, announced … » Read

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music has appointed Michael Tilson Thomas as its first and only distinguished professor of music, effective next fall. His term begins concurrent with the release of a boxed set devoted to new and previously … » Read