Because classical music has been the red-headed stepchild at the Grammy Awards for too many years, fans can be forgiven if they missed the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award received by Marilyn Horne last Sunday. It was her second Lifetime … » Read

On March 12 the annual conference of the Association of British Orchestras (ABO), held virtually, closed with the announcement of awards for achievement by individuals and organizations during a year of incredible challenges. The prestigious ABO … » Read

As always, the classical Grammy awards, along with other "fringe" genres, were announced the afternoon before the televised ceremony on CBS, in a pre-show ceremony. Following lists the nominees; winners are bold faced. Best Orchestral Performance … » Read

This year’s Avery Fisher Career Grants, given annually to artists who have the potential and the drive for success, have gone to two cellists, two violinists, and Eric Lu , the Berlin-based grand prize winner of the 2018 Leeds International … » Read

New Zealand-born conductor Gemma New, 34, principal guest conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Hamilton (CA) Philharmonic, is the recipient of the annual Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, given to a promising American … » Read

Three prominent music competitions have announced major adjustments this week. The biannual Menuhin Competition , based this year in Richmond, VA, will be fully online and remote, with competition rounds and various other events streaming May … » Read

Shifting entirely online for the first time, the  Sphinx Competition capped its 24th edition last weekend by awarding first prize to Samuel Abraham Vargas Teixeira, a violinist from Caracas, Venezuela. An alumni of El Sistema, the … » Read

For the second consecutive year, the Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Music Competition has been canceled due to the pandemic. Normally, the final rounds of the event are held in November in Paris, after preliminaries in a number of … » Read

Rather than awarding its annual $50,000 Beverly Sills Artist Award to a single singer, the Metropolitan Opera has divided the purse among five whom it deems “extraordinarily gifted singers with rising Met careers.” Each will get … » Read

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center has received a $20 million gift to its endowment, a bequest from the late Betty Wold Johnson, matriarch of the Johnson & Johnson family and fortune. The monies cap her long history of generosity to NJPAC, … » Read