Valerie Kahler assumed her new role as host of Performance Today this week, as Fred Child, in the job 25 years, stepped down. Heard on hundreds of public radio stations nationwide, Performance Today offers concert recordings, highlights from new … » Read

Native New Yorker James Gaffigan, 46, is to be the next music director of the Houston Grand Opera. Patrick Summers, artistic and music director since 1968, announced last year at this time that he would be stepping down at the end of the current … » Read

LONDON —Dead Man Walking is never a comfortable evening in the theatre—nor should it be. Jake Heggie’s opera, premiered in San Francisco in 2000, asks difficult questions and refuses easy answers. But in doing so, it achieves … » Read

Music publisher Boosey & Hawkes has announced a major leadership transition. In June 2026, Janis Susskind OBE will conclude her 13-year tenure as managing director after 46 years with the company. Senior VP Steven Lankenau, with B&H for … » Read

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) has extended Nathalie Stutzmann’s term as music director through 2028-2029. The current season is her fourth in the role. Among other changes needing to be made, she has hired 17 new musicians, thereby … » Read

Beginning in September 2026, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla will become the principal guest conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for a three-year term, joining Jaap van Zweden as he becomes music director. She will develop original … » Read

The San Francisco Symphony has hired a new principal horn, filling a key vacancy that has been open since Robert Ward retired in December 2023 after 43 years. The new man is Diego Incertis Sánchez, 28, current principal with the London … » Read

CHICAGO—Just as cellist Paul Wiancko sat down to play at Guarneri Hall, he locked eyes with an audience member in the front row, proudly wearing a Kronos T-shirt. “Mike, man,” he sighed, in mock exasperation, “wrong … » Read

This month The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD) and its Vice President Sir Bryn Terfel will launch the inaugural edition of its eponymous Song Prize as part of its 75 th anniversary celebration. The biennial Sir Bryn Terfel Song … » Read

The new Dance Hall of Fame will celebrate its inaugural class of inductees on December 3 at a ceremony at Los Angeles’ Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center on the UCLA campus. The ten honorees were selected by a board of 12 dance … » Read