There is podium news at the Gothenburg Symphony: Chief Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali will exit his post at the end of 2024-25, having been in the job since 2017. He says he wishes to spend more time with his family in Tampere, while also … » Read

There is much high-level music-making in Boston, so it was hard to choose only ten items. Here are my personal standouts. 10. Virtuoso pianist Daniil Trifonov returned to Boston in the Celebrity Series, but it wasn’t his rushed, unfocussed … » Read

I n late January the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) will premiere the world’s first hologram symphony concert at the 12 th artgenève , a contemporary and modern art fair. The ensemble’s 73 musicians will appear virtually … » Read

After its world premiere on Christmas Eve 170 years ago, one listener characterized the new symphony as “hardly a composition to be gravely criticized like an earnest work of Art.” And the work fared no better more than a century … » Read

CHICAGO—Like bringing up politics at a family dinner, tinkering with a classic-among-classics like Handel’s Messiah is guaranteed to crack some unbridgeable divides. Hark, then, ye skeptics, to Sir Andrew Davis’s twist on the … » Read

Gabriel Feltz, acting general music director of the City of Dortmund, is to move to Kiel, a coastal city in the north of Germany, to take the title of director of general music of the state capital and the Kiel Theater. Feltz, 53, studied at the … » Read

Belgian conductor Koen Kessels [pictured] is to be music director of Dutch National Ballet and artistic director/principal conductor of Dutch Ballet Orchestra as of August 2024. Kessels is the current music director of the U.K.’s Royal … » Read

BERGEN, Norway—An opera where tonality and dissonance grind against each other for 105 malignant minutes might be expected to wear an audience down, yet Elektra is surprisingly stirring. This is because Richard Strauss was a master at … » Read

The University of Arizona’s School of Music has announced the departure of composer Daniel Asia , who heads the composition department, at the end of the school year. He has been with UA since 1988 and is one of the university’s … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an organization in transition—with an interim chief executive and a soon-to-depart music director. But, argues Los Angeles Times classical music critic Mark Swed, the orchestra has just completed “the … » Read