After 18 years, Tobias Rempe will leave his post as artistic manager and managing director of the Ensemble Resonanz in the summer of 2025 to become the director of the Konzerthaus and Konzerthausorchester Berlin.  He succeeds Sebastian … » Read

LONDON—Back in the 18th and early 19th centuries, Pietro Metastasio was the undisputed go-to guy if you were looking for an opera libretto. So popular was the Roman poet, that an individual text might be set by multiple composers, often … » Read

A $2 million gift from John W. and Rosemary K. Brown to The Gilmore in Kalamazoo, MI, will establish an eponymous family fund in perpetuity to support the organization’s piano festivals and commissioning projects. The gift comes as the … » Read

The Vienna-based Javus Quartet has received the Jürgen Ponto Foundation ’s 2024 Music Prize. Given biennially since 2012 to string quartets from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland that have already won an international competition, the … » Read

Choosing a college is one of the most important decisions a student and their parents can make, finding the ideal match for the individual’s interests, abilities, and financial resources. Few prospective college freshmen have had as much to … » Read

Swedish soprano Matilda Sterby is the 2024 recipient of the Birgit Nilsson Stipendium, a €21,500 cash award presented annually to a young Swedish singer. (The stipend is not to be confused with the Birgit Nilsson Prize, a triennial award of … » Read

Nathan Cole, current first associate concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is to be concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as of next season; he’ll also play with the orchestra occasionally this summer at Tanglewood. Cole … » Read

If admirers of choreographer Mark Morris helped to ensure the warm reception accorded his production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice upon its return to the Metropolitan Opera May 16, fans of Anthony Roth Costanzo were similarly celebratory as … » Read

LEWES—According to the arts commentator Richard Morrison, writing in the London Times, unless there’s a shift in political will (which seems unlikely) the distinctly English curiosity known as “country house opera” may … » Read

From July 2 to 6, 2024, Armenia's first Academy for Young Conductors will be held in Yerevan. Organized by the Primavera Foundation Armenia and the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the academy under Vasily Petrenko’s supervision is … » Read