OPERA America has awarded its first two IDEA Opera Grants, which are intended to support and promote new works by promising composers and librettists of color. “By facilitating their work,” noted Marc A. Scorca, president/CEO of OPERA … » Read

Chinese-American composer Lei Liang has won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams , an orchestral work about climate change. The piece was commissioned by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project … » Read

The Lincoln Center 2020 class of Emerging Artists is comprised of nominees from each of the Center’s 11 resident organizations. “The Emerging Artist Awards,” said Lincoln Center President and CEO Henry Timms, “unite our … » Read

Apart from the Best Orchestral Performance nominations, the names among the 2020 Classical Grammy award contenders, announced this morning, are not limited to the Usual Suspects. The awards will be broadcast by CBS on January 26, although … » Read

The Young Concert Artists International auditions concluded last Sunday in Merkin Concert Hall, with four winners—two pianists, a string quartet, and a saxophone player—chosen from a field of 150 applicants from 17 countries. Each of … » Read

For its second edition, the Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition on October 19 awarded Vienna-based Simply Quartet first prize in the string quartet category. The quartet, which receives €15,000 and concert opportunities … » Read

California’s Edgerton Foundation has contributed $4 million to the Los Angles Philharmonic to support the new Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA (Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles) Center at Inglewood . Slated to open in fall 2020, the … » Read

The New York and Hong Kong philharmonics’ Music Director Jaap van Zweden has won not one but two awards in the last 24 hours. Today, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw announced him as the winner of its 2020 Concertgebouw Prize, given to musicians … » Read

Virtually the same day that Anne-Sophie Mutter received the 2019 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award of 15 million yen (c. $141,000) from Imperial Highness Prince Hitachi, that  Jaap van Zweden was recognized both for his work with … » Read

ASCAP has announced its annual Deems Taylor Awards—now known officially as the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards for print, broadcast, media, and liner notes. Heidi Waleson’s book Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death … » Read