Esteban Batallán's abrupt departure as principal trumpet for the Philadelphia Orchestra just six months after his arrival set tongues wagging. He has now explained why he is returning to Chicago for the same position, after a year’s … » Read

An anonymous buyer spent $23 million—the highest amount ever paid for a violin—for the “Baron Knoop” violin made by Antonio Stradivari. David L. Fulton, the U.S. collector sold the instrument, bought it in 1992 for $2.75 … » Read

  A 65-year-old conductor who was Covent Garden’s music director from 2002-24, Pappano succeeded Simon Rattle as the LSO’s chief conductor last September and has a quick commute from his home in Hampstead to the LSO’s … » Read

EVANSTON, Ill.— After Sir Andrew Davis was diagnosed with leukemia, the conductor and his son Ed Frazier Davis began to discuss end-of-life plans. Rather than a funeral, the elder Davis wanted a musical “celebration of life” … » Read

The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025/26 season, the company’s 71 st and  John Mangum’s first as general director, president ,& CEO, includes two world premieres, two Lyric premieres, and three new-to-Chicago productions. … » Read

Philanthropists Lynne and Richard Pasculano have given $50 million to Lincoln Center to support contemporary dance. The largest gift that LincInc has ever received for programming initiatives, said Mariko Silver, the Center’s president and … » Read

Ellen and Joe Checota are making $5 million challenge gifts to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Intended to grow each organization’s endowment fund, the gifts are be matched by Dec. … » Read

What’s this? No Mahler? No Brahms? The New York Philharmonic announced its 2025-26 season today, with Music Director Designate Gustavo Dudamel and CEO Matías Tarnopolsky setting the stage for what appears to be the orchestra’s … » Read

Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki has been named professor of orchestral conducting at the Sibelius Academy of Uniarts Helsinki, an institution well-known for training major conductors of modern times, including Mälkki, Esa-Pekka … » Read

Patrick Hahn—current artistic director of the Musik der Zeit concert series at the WDR Symphony and of the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik festival—is to be the next director of the Ensemble intercontemporain, effective as of … » Read