In an unprecedented decision, the jury for the 25 th annual Lenya Competition last week awarded three first prizes. Mezzo-soprano Taylor-Alexis DuPont, baritone Ryan Johnson, and soprano Nyla Watson each took home  $25,000. Geared toward … » Read

Toronto early music enterprise Tafelmusik has appointed Glenn Hodgins , current president and CEO of the Canadian Music Center, as its next executive director, as of June 21. Hodgins , who started his career over three decades ago as … » Read

Born Joseph Bologne in 1745 in the French colony of Guadeloupe to a white plantation owner and his slave wife, settling in France as a free man, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges continues to emerge as an important historic figure. It was his … » Read

The organization behind the cyberattack that  crippled the Met Opera website for nine days in December did in fact grab the names and credit card information of some 45,000 individuals in the U.S., according to The Record.  Letters that … » Read

Filling an illustrious pair of shoes at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra next fall will be South Korean violinist Jinwoo Lee, current first concertmaster of the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen in Germany. Capping a four-year search, Lee succeeds … » Read

Throughout the pandemic and subsequent recovery, TRG Arts, a Colorado Springs-based arts analytics firm, has issued regular reports on the impact of Covid-19 on the arts . Relying on data reported from its Arts and Culture Benchmark , the company … » Read

When the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra plunked down $198,000 for a new Steinway concert grand almost a year ago , it was reasonable to expect that the new instrument would get a lot of use by visiting soloists as soon as the new season got … » Read

Rhiannon Giddens can do no wrong these days. Artistic director of Silkroad, music director of the upcoming Ojai Festival, Macarthur fellow, singer/songwriter, Grammy winner, multi-instrumentalist, etc., she wrote her first opera libretto a few … » Read

The pitfalls of mixing art with politics are on display in Italy, where far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her council of ministers have declared the new retirement age for foreign heads of opera houses to be 70. Frenchman … » Read

Matthias Pintscher is to be the next music director of the Kansas City Symphony, succeeding Michael Stern as of fall  2024. Pintscher is a composer of note; this will mark his first U.S. orchestra music directorship. German-born, New … » Read