When he was 14, James Díaz started taking keyboard lessons thanks to the toss of a coin. His parents wanted to have one of their two sons receive training so as to be able to play in the local church. Díaz, born in 1990, would … » Read

If Julius Eastman’s music seems to re-invent itself with every hearing, it’s partly because the late composer encouraged performers to make his music their own, sometimes in highly interventionist ways. At the three-concert event … » Read

Kudos to the Cleveland Orchestra’s fundraisers. In March, the orchestra received $7 million from Jane Baker Nord, to create a special fund for educational concerts. Last week, the orchestra got $10 million from the Milton and Tamar Maltz … » Read

Jherrard Hardeman , 25, is to be the new assistant conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic under Andreas Delfs, as well as music director of the Rochestra Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. He became assistant conductor of the Chicago Sinfonietta last … » Read

In 1973 Wayne Sanders, his roommate and fellow musician Benjamin Mathews, and Sister Mary Elise Sisson, a white nun, met in an Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan to organize Opera Ebony. Their goal was to provide Black performers the … » Read

Ukrainian pianist Roman Fediurko, 18, swept the International Horowitz Competition in Geneva , which concluded a week’s worth of rounds on April 21. Fediurko, a scholarship student  at the International Music Academy in Lichtenstein, … » Read

LONDON—For a program steeped in executions and funeral marches, the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s April 26 concert at Southbank Centre was surprisingly colorful. It was also full of drama, opening with a 30-minute tryout of a new … » Read

Craft Recordings, which manages one of the world’s largest catalogs of master recordings and compositions as a subsidiary of  Concord Music , has launched a multi-year archival program to make recordings by Telarc International … » Read

The 2023-24 season will mark Sir Antonio Pappano’s 23 rd and last season as music director at the Royal Opera House, after which he succeeds Sir Simon Rattle as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Highlights of the 63-year-old … » Read

For over 40 years, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) has been an incubator for world-class conducting talent. Beginning with Simon Rattle in 1980 and continuing through Sakari Oramo, Andris Nelsons, and Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, the … » Read