Kris Chesky, who studied trumpet at Berklee School of Music and went on to become a dance-band leader and celebrated transdisciplinary researcher, has been appointed a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins … » Read

In conjunction with its 2023-24 class of Dudamel Fellows, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced Rodolfo Barráez [pictured], himself a onetime Dudamel Fellow and 2023 Hong Kong International Conducting Competition winner , as its … » Read

Hip hop and classical music might seem like strange bedfellows, but Darin Atwater [pictured] thinks otherwise. Tonight, the Baltimore-based conductor, pianist, and composer’s hip-hop-infused Black Metropolis will premiere in a performance … » Read

While violist Isabel Hagen was pursuing her master’s at Juilliard, pain in her shoulder and wrist necessitated a two-month break from playing. Because she had also begun to experience performance anxiety, the break proved to be a welcome … » Read

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Is non-English language music the future of the music business? Perhaps. The global music industry surpassed 1 trillion streams at the fastest pace, ever, in a calendar year, Luminate's 2023 Midyear Report has found. The … » Read

Italian conductor Alberto Veronesi, a well-regarded verismo specialist and DG recording artist, opened the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago July 14 conducting La Bohème blindfolded. It was his way of protesting French director Christophe … » Read

LONDON—How to fathom the unknowable? Gustav Mahler is one of history’s most complex and contradictory personalities, a man disarmingly naïve, intellectually profound, blunt to the point of rudeness, dictatorial, … » Read

Pittsburgh currently has two opera companies. The older, larger Pittsburgh Opera attracts thousands of patrons for productions presented in the fall, winter, and spring. The Pittsburgh Festival Opera (PFO) was established in 1978 and initially … » Read

West Virginia’s Wheeling Symphony Orchestra (WSO) has hired Sonja Thoms as its new executive director. Thoms since 2015 has been VP of operations for the Nashville Symphony. She holds an MM in oboe performance from the Shepherd School of … » Read

Patrons of the San Diego Symphony (SDS) are going to have to wait a bit longer to enjoy the results of the $125 million renovation underway at Copley Symphony Hall in the Jacobs Music Center. The emergence of unexpected construction and redesign … » Read