Emma Stenning is to be the new chief executive of The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) as of April 3, 2023. She succeeds Stephen Maddock, who leaves after almost 24 years to become principal at the Royal Birmingham Conservatory. Her … » Read

Scott Showalter will not renew his contract as president and CEO of the Oregon Symphony when it ends June 30, but he has agreed to stay on until a successor is chosen. Afterward, he will take on the new role of  “executive … » Read

The 2023-24 season at London’s Wigmore Hall will include over 500 concerts, which, the Hall claims, is the largest program of classical music in the U.K, performed by some 2,600 artists. On the schedule are 28 world and U.K. premieres. … » Read

Earlier this month, news went out that Apple Music Classical, the long-awaited successor to Primephonic as a streaming music app dedicated to classical music—and equipped with search capabilities far better suited to classical than those of … » Read

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s fourth season at the helm of the San Francisco Symphony will feature four world premieres, two one-act operas, a staging of Ravel’s Mother Goose ballet, four weeks of concerts led by Music Director Laureate Michael … » Read

PITTSBURGH (AP)—Scattered in crates, dirty and difficult to read, the gospel music of Charles Henry Pace sat packed away, unorganized — and unrealized — for more than 20 years. Frances Pace Barnes, the pioneering composer and … » Read

Rodolfo Barráez, a 29-year-old Venezuelan who is currently associate conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Dudamel Conducting Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, took first prize at the second edition of the Hong Kong … » Read

The five recipients of the 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grants—double bassist Nina Bernat; guitarist Bokyung Byun; flutist Emi Ferguson; pianist Evren Ozel; and the Isidore String Quartet—will be honored tonight in a ceremony at the … » Read

This year’s Polar Music Prize goes to Estonian composer Arvo Pärt [pictured], five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo, and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. The prize, sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize in … » Read

Bach’s Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Evagelistam Matthaeum or St. Matthew Passion had been missing from the New York Philharmonic for 15 years when Jaap van Zweden revived it for three performances last weekend at David Geffen … » Read