In a gesture both symbolic and practical, the Berlin Philharmonic today announced its patronage of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. With immediate effect, the alliance is designed to help the two Ukrainian … » Read

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) continues its much-admired artist-led programming next season, its 65 th , in a variety of concert formats and venues, including the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. SPCO is one of four partners that … » Read

Ukrainian conductor Kostiantyn Starovytskyi was killed last week on a combat mission near the city of Kramatorsk. The 40-year-old conductor, who had been a guest maestro at Kyiv Opera and the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, among others, joined the … » Read

Puccini’s La bohème is one of the most popular operas in the canon—the Metropolitan Opera alone has performed it more than 1,200 times and is set to revive it again on April 21. But none of these productions, one can feel … » Read

Pianist, composer, painter, and author Stephen Hough has added a third title to a list of publications that already includes Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More   and the novel The Final Retreat . His late st, Enough: Scenes From … » Read

LOS ANGELES—After long, ultimately transformative tenures with Finland’s Lahti Symphony and then the Minnesota Orchestra, and shorter ones in Seoul, Scotland, and Iceland, Osmo Vänskä has hit the road as a guest conductor, … » Read

British pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen has signed with HarrisonParrott for worldwide management. Having just made her recital debut at Elbphilharmonie last week, Momen, 32, has performed Stateside at New York’s 92 nd Street Y and the … » Read

In the past few years, social movements like #MeTo and Black Lives Matter have prompted an unprecedented broadening of the American orchestral repertoire as the works of neglected composers—primarily women and people of color—are … » Read

Royce Saltzman, co-founder of the Oregon Bach Festival and for over five decades a professor of choral music at the University of Oregon, died on April 3. He was 94. Beginning in 1964, he joined the University in Eugene, serving as a professor, … » Read

The Saint Louis Symphony has hired Paul Pietrowski as its new COO, effective today; Pietrowski most recently was orchestra, production, and operations manager of the Cincinnati Symphony, for six years. He held a similar position with the Richmond … » Read