The past year in classical music has been dominated by the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Major institutions,” writes Alex Ross in The New Yorker , “finally began to extricate themselves from the sticky … » Read

The Voice of Black Opera Awards -- open to Black and South Asian singers from Commonwealth countries and sponsored jointly by the British Black Classical Foundation and Welsh National Opera (WNO)— ended in Birmingham, U.K., on December 6. … » Read

Among the reasons for the decline in music education, the often-prohibitive cost of musical instruments is near the top of the list. Now the Montreal-based AVIVA Young Artists Program is offering a solution designed to place instruments within … » Read

Some 450 composers, musicians, educators, and arts leaders have signed a letter to Juilliard calling for the school to take disciplinary action against composer and department chair Robert Beaser for alleged “decades-long abuse of women and … » Read

Opera and music theater director Jo Davies is to be the new artistic director of Opera Australia, effective in November of 2023 and succeeding Lyndon Terracini, who was in the job 13 years before opting out of a contract renewal. He  left … » Read

After serving briefly on the faculty of the Juilliard School, composer Andrew Norman, 43, who was named Musical America’s Composer of the Year in the same year he won the Grawemeyer award, in 2017, will return to the USC Thornton School of … » Read

Research data from Epidemic Sound, a Swedish-based music tech company, has found that classical music is the fastest growing genre on YouTube, jumping by more than 90 percent in the last year across Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, … » Read

Gail Samuel has resigned as president and CEO of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a position she will have been in for 18 months. She steps down at the end of the year, with advisory-board member Jeffrey Dunn agreeing to serve as interim. Dunn … » Read

LONDON—The sun shines brightly in Australia during December, but this account of Schubert’s chilling (and chilly) masterpiece in song, first seen and heard in Sydney earlier this year, practically froze the stage when it reached a … » Read

The Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Canada’s oldest continuing orchestra (est. 1902), has appointed German conductor Clemens Schuldt to be its next music director, effective next season for four years. He succeeds Bramwell Tovey, … » Read