American conductor Sameer Patel is to be the new music director and orchestra conductor of the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus in San Diego, effective next season. He succeeds Steven Schick, who exited last year, and works “alongside” … » Read

Swiss newspaper Le Temps reports orchestra musicians at the Verbier Festival expressing their dissatisfaction with Plácido Domingo’s conducting prowess. Comments from the rehearsal of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, programmed … » Read

American conductor Perry So is to be the next music director of the New Haven (CT)  Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) as of 2024-25. He succeeds Alasdaire Neale, who steps down next May after five years in the job to return to Europe. Perry So is c … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” graced a decades-long career that brought him … » Read

As he prepares to step down as music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival this summer (Lincoln Center is eliminating the event), and next year from the same post at the Cincinnati Symphony, Louis Langrée is a man in transition. As a … » Read

Central City Opera and AGMA may have finally come to terms last May , moments before the current season was set to launch, but all is still not well. As of last Monday, President and CEO Pamela A. Pantos [pictured], is suddently out, after just … » Read

While violist Isabel Hagen was pursuing her master’s at Juilliard, pain in her shoulder and wrist necessitated a two-month break from playing. Because she had also begun to experience performance anxiety, the break proved to be a welcome … » Read

Italian conductor Alberto Veronesi, a well-regarded verismo specialist and DG recording artist, opened the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago July 14 conducting La Bohème blindfolded. It was his way of protesting French director Christophe … » Read

In conjunction with its 2023-24 class of Dudamel Fellows, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced Rodolfo Barráez [pictured], himself a onetime Dudamel Fellow and 2023 Hong Kong International Conducting Competition winner , as its … » Read

Kris Chesky, who studied trumpet at Berklee School of Music and went on to become a dance-band leader and celebrated transdisciplinary researcher, has been appointed a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins … » Read