The Liszt Academy reports receiving a record 265 applications from aspiring young singers for its biannual Éva Marton International Singing Competition in its seventh edition. Following a week of elimination rounds, the finals took … » Read

After a one-year medical leave, Elizabeth Askren is back as music director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra, a post she assumed last year , succeeding the retiring Willam Boughton.  In her absence, several guest and student conductors, … » Read

Jordan M. Davis is to be assistant dean of admissions at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), effective Oct. 1. He succeeds John Martin, who is retiring after 11 years with CCM. As the new assistant dean, Davis will … » Read

LONDON—Words like icon and legendary are apt to be overused, but in the case of Martha Argerich they feel entirely justified. This September 5 BBC Prom at London’s Royal Albert Hall saw the Argentinian greeted with the warmest of … » Read

Jonathan Swensen has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Olesen Music Award, a major new biennial Danish award founded by the Erik & Susanna Olesen Charitable Foundation that recognizes exceptional young classical musicians and … » Read

Herbert Blomstedt, the 99-year-old Swedish conductor, is one of five recipients of the 2026 Praemium Imperiale in recognition of their lifetime achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and theater/film. The award carries an … » Read

For the past 18 years conductor and composer Robert Ames has led the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO), an ensemble he co-founded. As he steps down from organization, he writes in The Guardian that he finds himself “increasingly angry at … » Read

Allen Moon, a 25-year veteran of David Lieberman Artist Management, acquired the company as Lieberman stepped back about a year ago; he has renamed it Moon Artists Management. Glancing at the rosters, before and after, little seems to have … » Read

Montreal-based conductor Jean-Sébastien Vallée is the new director of choruses and conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus (TFC) for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with immediate effect. He succeeds James Burton, who took over … » Read

Over a few tortured weeks in February and March of 2022 the Metropolitan Opera and its reigning prima donna, Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, engaged in a war of words that ended with the severing of a relationship that had benefited both parties … » Read