The Charlotte (NC) Symphony Orchestra (CSO) has surpassed its $50 million goal for a three-year comprehensive campaign to secure new endowment funds and operating support. It is the largest fundraising effort in the ensemble’s 93-year … » Read

Mette Bryndum is the new executive director of the Moab Music Festival. A native of Copenhagen, and now a resident of Moab, Utah, Bryndum will team with Tessa Lark, the Festival’s artistic director and renowned violinist. Lark wrote of … » Read

Kenneth Renshaw is to join the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in August as assistant professor of violin. Renshaw, active as a soloist and chamber musician internationally, first came into the limelight when he … » Read

Cardiff University has reversed plans, announced in early February , to eliminate its music and modern language departments. Part of a plan to cut 400 positions at the beginning of 2025, the university’s announcement created a firestorm of … » Read

American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen has been chosen by the Met Opera to receive its annual $50,000 Beverly Sills Award, which honors “extraordinary singers with rising Met careers.” Her most recent Met appearance was as … » Read

The arts and media programs at Atlanta’s Georgia State University (GSU) are welcoming new faculty and administrators. On March 31 Julia Bullard was announced as the new director of the School of Music in the College of the Arts at Georgia … » Read

Lee Koonce has been chosen as the inaugural executive director of the 34-member Fenimore Chamber Orchestra, located in Cooperstown, NY. The four-year-old ensemble, founded during the pandemic, presents a five-concert season under Artistic … » Read

During his ten years as music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden is widely credited with dramatically improving the ensemble’s precision and flexibility. This  did not come easily, according to some of the … » Read

Daniele Gatti, who, it may be recalled, was fired from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw for “inappropriate behavior” at that location and, ultimately, elsewhere, has cancelled all his future La Scala engagements. Anticipating that he was … » Read

Beginning with the 2025–2026 academic year, Elizabeth Askren will become director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra as well as associate professor adjunct at the Yale School of Music. She succeeds William Boughton, in the post since 2019. … » Read