Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla made her New York debut in September of 2016 conducting the Juilliard Orchestra—just as the group was coming together for the first time in the academic year. Of her subsequent local outing in 2018, leading the MET … » Read

After nine years, the Maryland Lyric Opera is immediately ending operations. The group’s founder and artistic director Brad Clark, scion of billionaire construction mogul A. James Clark, made the announcement in an internal memo … » Read

Finnish-British conductor Ross Jamie Collins has signed with HarrisonParrott for general worldwide management. Recently appointed conductor-in-residence for the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, he is also a Dudamel Fellow with Los Angeles Philharmonic … » Read

With the news that the English National Opera  will cut 19 jobs in its orchestra and put the remaining musicians on part-time contracts, resulting in a 40 percent pay cut, Martyn Brabbins, ENO music director of the past seven years, this … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Rubin, a longtime publishing executive with an eye for bestsellers and a passion for music and public life who helped launched the career of John Grisham, among others, and released such blockbusters as The Da Vinci … » Read

Sean Shepherd, New York Philharmonic’s inaugural Kravis Emerging Composer in 2012 and the recipient of numerous commissions from other major groups, will receive the $200,000 Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and … » Read

German violist and pedagogue Tabea Zimmermann has returned to KSG (KünstlerSekretariat am Gasteig), the Munich-based firm whose roster also includes the likes of Herbert Blomstedt, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Julia Fischer, and pianist Lang Lang. … » Read

As the new chief conductor at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Joana Mallwitz, at 37, is not only the youngest music director among the city’s seven large orchestras and three opera houses, she is the first and only woman to rise to such a prominent … » Read

‘Tis the season for biopics depicting icons of the classical music world. Bradley Cooper’s portrayal of Leonard Bernstein in Maestro is set to make its American premiere in the next few weeks. And now comes news that within the next … » Read

Brian Speck, former director of the Houston Grand Opera Studio—now known as the Butler HGO Studio, thanks to $22 million from Sarah and Earnest Butler—has joined the Metropolitan Opera as artistic administrator. He succeeds Paul … » Read