The Pacific Chorale has named Rhett M. Del Campo as president and CEO as of May 1. He succeeds Andrew Brown, who left last fall after five years to take the same position with the Pasadena Symphony . A onetime professional percussionist, Del … » Read

The already complicated issue of leadership succession at Milan’s La Scala has just gotten a bit more so. The Italian minister of culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, and the city’s mayor, Giuseppe Sala, have for some time said they want an … » Read

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s decision to join the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) in 2018 was a major coup. At the time of his appointment, he spoke glowingly about the new partnership: "My ideas about an orchestra as an institution," he told the New … » Read

The Brooklyn College and its School of Visual Media and Performing Arts (SVMPA) has just announced its first-ever chair in music, which has been named in honor of composer Tania León and funded by the Connecticut-based Tow … » Read

LOS ANGELES—John Adams has been the Creative Chair of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, virtually as long as Gustavo Dudamel has been the music director. He seems content to stay on, which is all to the good, as it helps to stabilize … » Read

The numbers don’t lie. In the world of piano competitions, there is a huge gender gap. Of the most recent 40 major competitions, 82 percent were won by men. In a third of these events, all the finalists were male. The numbers are almost … » Read

What’s an Oscar worth? Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers, co-directors of The Last Repair Shop , which won this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film, hope that the answer might be as much as $15 million. That’s the … » Read

For nearly 50 years, Anne-Sophie Mutter has lived an artist’s life that is both glorious and draining. In an interview with the German business publication Handelsblatt , she offers insights to how she has maintained a spot at the pinnacle … » Read

In response to Esa-Pekka Salonen’s pointed, publicly stated rationale for not renewing his contract as music director , the San Francisco Symphony has issued a fairly detailed rationale of its own, explaining the cause and effects of cost … » Read

CHICAGO—When organizations dust off little-known rarities, the adjective they often bandy about, con gusto, is “rediscovered.” Gratefully, Haymarket Opera Company staked no such claims before its March 22 performance of Maria … » Read