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

Christopher Hahn has announced that the 2025-26 season will be his last as general director for the Pittsburgh Opera . He was appointed to the position in 2008, after serving for eight years as artistic director. The South African native began … » Read

Matthew Lutton is to be the new artistic director of the Adelaide Festival, with a three-year contract beginning in 2026. He succeeds Brett Sheehy, whose association with the festival dates to 2003. For the past nine years, Lutton has been … » Read

LOS ANGELES—Given the current administration’s predilections, this might seem a dangerous time in which to launch a festival celebrating the music of two late Black and/or homosexual avant-gardists. But the first-time consortium of LA … » Read

A law suit filed in the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island on March 6 led the National Endowment for the Arts to agree that, for the moment, grant applicants need not attest that they will not “promote gender ideology” when applying … » Read

The Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) announced its annual awards on March 6 at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the first time the event had taken place in that city. The evening honoring classical music in the U.K. recognized more than a dozen … » Read

The Cincinnati Opera and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) reached a three-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA), ratified on March 3 by the union’s board of governors. The contract, retroactive to January 1, 2025, extends … » Read