BERLIN (AP) — The Bayreuth Festival in Germany announced on Tuesday that it is retaining Katharina Wagner as its director for another five years. Wagner, who turns 46 on May 21 and is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, became co-head … » Read

Violinist Annie Fullard, current chair of chamber music at the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, is to be the next director of chamber music at the Peabody Institute. A founding member of the Cavani String Quartet, she will … » Read

Conductor and pianist Jeffrey Kahane first began working with the now defunct San Antonio Symphony in the early 1990s, forming a bond with the musicians that has survived the orchestra’s demise in 2022. He conducted the opening concert of … » Read

“Significant financial challenges” may spell the end for many Saturday courses for learners aged 4–18 offered by the Junior Conservatoire of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD). The program currently serves 182 … » Read

ZURICH — In an age of radical reinterpretations, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and director Andreas Homoki created a counterrevolutionary version of Wagner’s four-night, 15-hour Ring Cycle that sparked 13 minutes of applause at the … » Read

On May 22 Angela Dixon is to become the new chair of the Royal Philharmonic Society succeeding 14-year incumbent Sir John Gilhooly, artistic and executive director of Wigmore Hall. Dixon, currently CEO at Saffron Hall, studied music at the … » Read

There is both good and bad news on the post-pandemic recovery of the arts. First the good: Jennifer Sowinski Nemeth, in a detailed 2023 report for JCA Arts Marketing, “Music organizations have seen stronger sales post-pandemic relative to … » Read

The most competitive slot among music conservatory enrollment is probably that of the tuba student at Curtis Institute of Music. In any given year, only one of the school’s 160 enrollees is studying the instrument, and over the past 100 … » Read

If ever there was a perfect illustration of technology destroying creativity, it is Apple’s ad for the newest iPads, titled, appropriately, Crush! , and originally slated to air on broadcast TV. In it, a massive hydraulic press is shown … » Read

Three years after opening the much-heralded indoor/outdoor Rady Shell at the city’s picturesque bay waterfront, the San Diego Symphony will take up residency in its newly refurbished concert hall at the Jacobs Music Center, a two-year, $125 … » Read