Italian conductor Mino Marani [pictured], 37, is to be the new Heidelberg General Music Director (GMD) as of 2024-25, pending final approval by the city council. He is the current Kapellmeister of Staatstheater Braunschweig. Recent Heidelberg … » Read

Trumpeter Terence Blanchard—film composer, multiple Grammy winner, and recently christened opera composer ( Fire Shut up in My Bones, Champion )—has just had his jazz credentials re-confirmed, announced as one of the four National … » Read

Detroit Harmony, a collaborative of more than 40 local arts nonprofits, schools, and community organizations organized by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) in 2019, aims to create and strengthen music opportunities for every school child in … » Read

WARSAW, Poland (AP)—Thirty-five participants from around the world will compete in Poland’s 2nd Frederic Chopin Piano Competition on Period Instruments, October 5-15 at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, the organizers said … » Read

A spate of retirements by Bay Area musicians has prompted them to share reflections about their long careers with the San Francisco Chronicle. French hornist Bruce Roberts retired last month after 35 years. When he arrived from Utah in 1988 to … » Read

Be ready for anything from a new Ted Hearne piece. Many of those in the free-of-charge audience at the Caramoor Summer Music Festival’s July 9 performance of Farming— the accomplished new work by this fearless, outspoken … » Read

Two key chamber ensembles have updated their personnel. The American Brass Quintet (ABQ, est. 1960) has brought on a new trumpet in Brandon Ridenour, and its first ever woman member, trombonist Hillary Simms. Ridenour succeeds Louis Hanzlik, who … » Read

Émigré , a 90-minute oratorio about Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai in the 1930s, will debut this November in Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall, with its U.S. premiere at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall … » Read

On July 6 the South Korean soprano Lee Sang-eun was found dead in a woman’s restroom at Gimcheon Culture and Art Center. Her body was discovered just minutes before she was to perform in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Gimcheon … » Read

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP)—A document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death is a valid Michigan will, a jury said Tuesday, a critical turn in a dispute that has turned her sons against each other. … » Read