Capitalizing on their shared music director, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra will together mount a festival honoring the 50 th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death in Leipzig, May 15-June 1, 2025. Andris … » Read

ISTANBUL (AFP)—Turkish composer and pianist Fazil Say has said his concerts planned this week in Switzerland were cancelled by organizers over his social media posts criticizing Israeli policies in Gaza. Say was due to perform with the City … » Read

While the Ukrainian military’s fight against Russian invaders is drawing intense international attention, the country’s musicians are waging a lower profile but nonetheless important battle to strengthen support for their nation. The … » Read

After 47 years and thousands of concerts worldwide, playing nearly 300 compositions and recording most of them, the Emerson String Quartet has called it quits. Actually, they called it quits twice. Most immediately with the second of two … » Read

It was a long time in coming, but Georgian-French pianist Khatia Buniatishvili finally performed a solo recital in Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall last Thursday evening (Oct. 19), having previously made her official Carnegie debut in Weill … » Read

Opera has long been among the most tradition-bound of the performing arts, featuring narratives shaped by mythology, Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, and other historical themes. But now, argues Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle , composers … » Read

On Oct. 19, Michael Tilson Thomas, music director laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, led a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. It was, notes Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle , “all too likely to be his final … » Read

In a ceremony at Boston’s Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain on Oct. 20, composer, educator, and author Dr. Bill Banfield received the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award, aka the Call to Service Award, which was created in 2003 by … » Read

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra Association have ratified a collective bargaining agreement calling for minimum salaries to increase by 15.8% over three years--not the 19.6% … » Read

Succeeding  Paul Helfrich as executive director of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra is Karina Bharne, currently in that job with Symphony Tacoma in Washington. Prior to her five years in Tacoma, Bharne served as interim executive director … » Read