The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) has announced that tenor Richard Cox will join the faculty of its voice department in 2025. Characterized as “a teacher of extraordinary capability with the prodigious professional experience … » Read

Gearing up for 2024-25, orchestras are rearranging their rosters as musicians retire, arrive, and earn promotions. In the first category is longtime San Francisco Symphony members Chunming Mo [pictured, right], second violin, who joined the … » Read

The Last Night of the Proms on Sept. 14 featuring American soprano Angel Blue and British pianist Sir Stephen Hough concluded a 90-concert season that was one of the most successful in the Proms’ history. Thus far over 10.6 million people … » Read

As the San Diego Symphony counts down the days to the  September 28 reopening of its newly renovated concert hall, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra announces that Powell Hall--curently under reconstruction and set to reopen in fall of … » Read

Six new musicians have joined the ranks of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO), part of the new flock of players who have arrived during Nathalie Stutzmann’s two-year tenure. Lauren Roth comes to the position of assistant concertmaster … » Read

On Sept. 13, after months of negotiations to have Temple University absorb the University of Arts (UArts) failed to reach an agreement, the latter institution filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The next step calls for the 150-year-old school, which … » Read

Over the past decade in the U.K., two organizations have been at work rehoming abandoned pipe organs and pianos. The Pianodrome Company , formed in 2017 by Tim Vincent-Smith and Matthew Wright, has paired the construction of an amphitheater made … » Read

Will they or won’t they? The 32 AGMA members in the San Francisco Symphony Chorus—aka “ringers”—have said they will strike as a “last resort” if the orchestra carries through with its plan, which, they … » Read

HOLLYWOOD—Gustavo Dudamel didn’t drop by Hollywood Bowl until the last two weeks of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s summer season. But when he did, he brought with him a bewilderingly eclectic series of six programs, the last of … » Read

The resignation of CFO Sylvia Romo on Sept. 12, the day before the opening of the San Antonio Philharmonic’s season, is the latest in a string of unsettling departures from the three-year-old organization. Of ten staff members listed in the … » Read