In 1991 Liverpool native Paul McCartney composed his Liverpool Oratorio in response to a request from the Royal Liverpool Orchestra, then celebrating its 150 th anniversary. Its premiere in the city’s cathedral that year featured soprano … » Read

Britain’s annual Three Choirs Festival, which lays claim to being the oldest classical music festival in the world, has announced that Alexis Paterson, its CEO of the last eight years, will exit at the end of this year’s event, July … » Read

SANTA MONICA, CA – Imagine getting the idea for an opera from the stamp collection that you had as a kid. So said composer Huang Ruo, for whom the mythological Chinese characters on some of his stamps eventually materialized into Book of … » Read

Violinist Katie Stillman is to be the new leader of Leeds-based Opera North’s orchestra, effective in August. She succeeds David Greed, who exits after 40 years with the company. Stillman is currently first violinist of the Villiers Quartet … » Read

The meteoric ascension of Klaus Mäkelä—he will be just 32 when he becomes music director of both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2027—has left more than a few observers thinking he has … » Read

Few Britons better understand the world of opera in the U.K. than Sir Antonio Pappano, musical director of the Royal Opera House for more than two decades and since September chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. “Here … » Read

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) has selected Peter Jutras to become its new dean. Currently professor of piano and piano pedagogy and director of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music (HHSM) at the University of … » Read

BOSTON—Two of today’s major artists, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Kirill Gerstein, made their first joint Boston appearance in Jordan Hall on April 7. And there may be another musician to thank for bringing them together. … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Philharmonic will give five concerts in China this summer in what it says will be first visit to the mainland by a U.S. orchestra since 2019. Outgoing Music Director Jaap van Zweden will conduct the performances … » Read

François López-Ferre r is the recipient of this year’s $30,000 Georg Solti Conducting Award, bestowed annually by the Solti Foundation “to a single, promising American conductor 36 years of age or younger.” A … » Read