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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five months after they were postponed because of the coronavirus, the annual Kennedy Center Honors are coming back in May, possibly in a series of small events, organizers announced Wednesday. This year’s recipients … » Read

For the first time in its history, the 2021 Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig will be shared by two recipients—the musicologists Hans-Joachim Schulze and Christoph Wolff.  Established in 2003 to recognize individuals whose research or … » Read

The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs has announced over $47.1million in grants to 1,032 cultural groups in fiscal 2020. Recipients range from the Brooklyn Steppers to the Metropolitan Opera, from under $9,000 to over $100,000. In its … » Read

The Handel House Foundation has chosen the Italian conductor, harpsichordist and organist Andrea Marcon as winner of the 2021 Handel Prize of the City of Halle an der Saale. The honorary award recognizes special artistic, academic, or cultural … » Read

Yannick Nézet-Séguin has received Orchestra Canada’s Betty Webster Award, an annual prize to a group or individual for their contribution to the health of the country’s orchestral community. Nominated by his longtime … » Read

Danish National Symphony Orchestra reports that it has received a record number of applications for its triennial Malko Competition for Young Conductors, scheduled to take place June 7 – 12, 2021. In total, 612 young men and women under age … » Read

Since Germany has more opera houses per capita (80, to be precise) than the U.S. has Starbucks, a win at one of the country’s annual Oper! Awards is an important accomplishment, even—or perhaps especially--in the year of the pandemic. … » Read

In what has become a rare phenomenon for 2020, Young Concert Artists held an in-person competition on Nov. 8 at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall. Three winners were chosen from a finalist pool of ten instrumentalists and singers. They are: … » Read