A $4.6 million gift to the Cleveland Orchestra from Myrna and Jim Spira will help underwrite artistic programming, the pension and annual funds, and endow the Myrna and Jim Spira Bass Clarinet Chair. This marks the orchestra's third major gift … » Read

On Feb. 16, the 52 nd George and Nora London Foundation Competition for young North American opera singers selected six winners from among a dozen finalists. Each performed one selection before a live and on-line audience at the Morgan Library … » Read

Mannes School of Music at The New School’s College of Performing Arts has chosen Robert Bily to receive the 2024 Alexis Gregory Vendome Prize. The 26-year-old Czech pianist receives $30,000 cash as well as several concert dates throughout … » Read

Fiona Sinclair, chief executive of the Leeds International Piano Competition, has taken aim at the bias that stunts the concert careers of female pianists regardless of their talents. Armed with data from several recent studies, she points to the … » Read

Best Orchestra Performance Thomas Adès: Dante Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Los Angeles Philharmonic   Best Opera Performance Terence Blanchard: Champion Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Ryan Speedo Green, Latonia Moore, … » Read

For the first time in its 87-year history, the Louisville Orchestra has received a Grammy Award, winning for The American Project in the Best Classical Instrument Solo category. The original composition, by the orchestra’s music director … » Read

The past year ended on a much happier note for the BBC Singers than it began. In early March the BBC announced that the choral group would be disbanded in order to enable the media giant to invest “more widely in the future of choral … » Read

The Tom Wilhelmsen Foundation has made a NOK 10 million ($960,000) gift to the Queen Sonja Singing Competition. Established in 1988, the biennial Norwegian competition provides an arena for aspiring singers from Norway and around the world to … » Read

Capping its annual conference, titled this year “Amplify,” the Sphinx Organization presented the finals of its senior division competition on January 27 in Detroit’s Fisher Music Center. Taking the $50,000 Robert Frederick … » Read

The sudden death last November of Franz Xaver Ohnesorg , the jury chairman-designate for the 16 th Concours Géza Anda 2024, has led to the appointment of Rico Gulda, pianist and head of artistic planning at the Vienna Konzerthaus, as the … » Read