Within minutes of the Met Opera’s announcement of  Ryan Speedo Green as the 2023 recipient of its $50,000 Beverly Sills Award, the LA Opera announced the 2023 recipients of its $50,000 Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award: conductor Lina … » Read

Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, currently starring in his first lead role at the Metropolitan Opera, has won the company’s 2023 Beverly Sills Artist Award, an annual $50,000 prize to “extraordinarily gifted” singers. Named for … » Read

Kevin Chen won first prize at the 17 th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, held in Tel Aviv from March 14 to April 1. This marks the second major competition win for the 18-year-old Canadian, who took first prize at the 76 … » Read

Rodolfo Barráez, a 29-year-old Venezuelan who is currently associate conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Dudamel Conducting Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, took first prize at the second edition of the Hong Kong … » Read

This year’s Polar Music Prize goes to Estonian composer Arvo Pärt [pictured], five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo, and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. The prize, sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize in … » Read

The five recipients of the 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grants—double bassist Nina Bernat; guitarist Bokyung Byun; flutist Emi Ferguson; pianist Evren Ozel; and the Isidore String Quartet—will be honored tonight in a ceremony at the … » Read

Italian-German conductor Nicolò Umberto Foron, 25 [pictured], has won the London Symphony Orchestra’s 17th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition , following three days of competition. He receives £15,000 cash and becomes the … » Read

Young Concert Artists (YCA) has announced that Alistair Coleman will be their 2023 composer-in-residence. Coleman, who hails from Washington, DC, was selected out of nearly 150 applications for the position that comes with a three-year management … » Read

Applications close on April 20 for the 77th Concours de Genève String Quartet and Flute Competitions 2023. The latter is open to candidates born after November 4, 1993. the former to string quartets whose members were born after October … » Read

Twenty-four-year-old Euan Shields has won the 2023 edition of the Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition. The American conductor was among the more than 200 aspiring maestros from six continents who applied to compete; eight … » Read