The Brooklyn Museum of Art has selected Niles Luther as its first-ever composer-in-residence. The appointment, which is supported by a Ford Foundation fellowship, extends to November 2025 and calls for Luther to create original and/or art music … » Read

The City of Lahti in Finland has given Dalia Stasevska a one-year contract extension as principal conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, beginning in August 2024 and extending through July 2025. She has been in the position since 2021. Also … » Read

The Verve Label Group (VLG) has promoted Joseph Oerke to executive vice president of Decca Records US. He has been with the company for 16 years, and in his most recent position as senior vice president, marketing and artist strategy, helped the … » Read

CHICAGO—In 1582, four teenage boys—Mancio Ito, Miguel Chijiwa, Julião Nakaura, and Martinho Hara—left Nagasaki, and the only homeland they’d ever known, to travel across Europe and the Portuguese Empire. They … » Read

A ballet performance in South Korea featuring dancers from Russia's Bolshoi Ballet was cancelled abruptly, the organizers confirmed to AFP Tuesday, amid growing tensions between Seoul and Moscow over Ukraine and North Korea. The Russian embassy … » Read

Across its four on- and off-campus venues at U.C. Berkeley, Cal Performances in 2024-25 has a bounty of performances on offer, some at the cutting edge, others more traditional, all intriguing enough to entice even the most seasoned concert goer. … » Read

Berkshire Choral International, which offers weeklong summer workshops for amateur choristers in various locales—this year, four in the U.S., one in Vienna-- has announced new artistic leadership. Frank Nemhauser, who has served as music … » Read

Half a century ago Pinchas Zukerman was the groovy face of classical music, much as the Aix Easter Festival’s Artistic Director Renaud Capuçon is today. Like the two violinists’ mutual friend Daniel Barenboim, the 75-year-old … » Read

The financial challenges stemming from the funding cuts implemented by Arts Councils England and Wales have forced the Welsh National Opera (WNO) to cut performances scheduled for its 2024-25 season. ACE reduced funding to the company by 35 … » Read

Texas’s Tobin Center has announced The Orchestra of San Antonio (TOSA) as its resident symphony. TOSA is essentially the rebranded Classical Music Institute , an educational and performance organization that had earlier subsumed Chamber … » Read