Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires is this year’s recipient of the Praemium Imperiale Award for Music. The five honorees—including for architecture, painting, theatre/film, and sculpture—were announced by the Japan Art … » Read

The International Opera Awards has published the shortlist for this year’s honors. The winners will be announced at a ceremony hosted by the Bayerische Staatsoper (the 2023 Opera Company of the Year), to be held at the Prinzregententheater … » Read

Boris Brovtsyn has won the London Classic Violin Competition. A graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Russia and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, the 47-year-old Russian-born, U.K.-domiciled violinist receives … » Read

The Sphinx Organization has announced the three recipients of the 2024 Medal of Excellence, an award established in 2012 that recognizes transformative leaders who are addressing systemic obstacles facing Black and Latino communities in the … » Read

The fourth iteration of the International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music concluded in Hong Kong on July 27. First organized in 2011 by Yan Huichang, artistic director and principal conductor for life of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra … » Read

Polish countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski has been awarded the Gold Gloria Artis Medal for Merit in Culture [pictured] from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland. He received the medal after his recital at the Museum of Interiors … » Read

The Bowdoin International Music Festival, currently underway in its 60 th -anniversary season (June 22 to August 3), has announced a $3.7 million bequest from Patricia Crawford Brown, a longtime patron and board member. Brown, who died at age 90 … » Read

Hungarian composer György Kurtág, 98, is recipient of the 2024 Wolf Prize in Music , a cash award of $100,000 sponsored by the Wolf Foundation of Israel. Acclaimed for his avant-garde chamber, vocal, and orchestral works, he has been … » Read

The Royal Opera House has received £10 million from the Julia Rausing Trust, one of the first recipients from the newly established foundation, now a distinct entity from the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust. Ms. Rausing died in April at age 63 … » Read

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)has followed up a recently completed four-year grant to the Greek National Opera (GNO) with a new two-year award of €11,000,000 to support the company’s outreach efforts. The initial grant is widely … » Read