Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, currently starring in his first lead role at the Metropolitan Opera, has won the company’s 2023 Beverly Sills Artist Award, an annual $50,000 prize to “extraordinarily gifted” singers. Named for … » Read

LONDON—Watch out world, there’s a new choir in town. Vox Urbane, whose inaugural concert took place amid the dilapidated grandeur of the Asylum Chapel in Peckham, a south London suburb with a proud working-class Victorian legacy, is … » Read

In October, Play on Philly (POP) Founder and Executive Director Stanford Thompson announced that he would be stepping down after 13 years at the helm, “to continue my life’s work of ensuring equitable access to quality music education … » Read

Ahmad Jamal, born Frederick Russell Jones in Pittsburgh on July 2, 1930, died on April 16 at age 92 in Massachusetts. A keyboardist whose playing defied easy categorization, he inspired generations of jazz artists ranging from pianists McCoy … » Read

The Perelman Family Foundation has pledged $25 million to create the “Perelman Arts District” at Brown University, funding the the Brown Arts Institute, founded in 2021, and the university’s 2017 Brown Arts Initiative, which … » Read

Scott Reed will step down as president and CEO of the Music Academy at the end of the 2023 summer season, according to an executive search firm posting. He has been with the Santa Barbara based Academy, which recently simplified its name from … » Read

In his first leadership post in the U.S., conductor Alexander Shelley is to be artistic and music director of Artis—Naples,  that unusual partnership between the Naples (FL) Philharmonic and its next-door neighbor, the Baker Museum. … » Read

For seven years Harriet Jacobs, an enslaved woman in North Carolina, hid from her abusive enslaver in an attic space that measured 9-feet long by 7- feet wide and 3- feet high. With only a small peephole to let in light, she sweltered in the … » Read

When Valentina Peleggi, music director of the Richmond Symphony, mounted the podium on April 1 to conduct George Walker’s Icarus in Orbit and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection , she and her musicians debuted a new, custom-designed … » Read

NEW YORK (AP)—Lincoln Center will hold its second Summer for the City festival June 14 to Aug. 12. The large disco ball and dance floor will return. The event currently is set to include 193 events, including 50 on the plaza dance floor, 37 … » Read