Mitsuko Uchida, now 76, seems to revel in truth-telling. “Really it’s not craziness,” she tells Ivan Hewett, chief music critic for The Telegraph . “I’m just very direct.” The daughter of a Japanese diplomat, … » Read

Bachtrack, the London-based international online music magazine, has compiled statistics from the 30,774 concert, opera, and dance performances it listed in 2024. Among the most interesting takeaways is the gradual, yet steady rise of women … » Read

The “processional opera” Primero Sueño had its January 23 world premiere at the Cloisters, the Met Museum’s famed repository of European medieval art and architecture in upper Manhattan. True to its description, the … » Read

Boston’s Longwood Symphony Orchestra (LSO) has appointed Hannah Collins , associate professor and string area coordinator at the University of Kansas School of Music, as its executive director. LSO, which seeks to combine the healing arts … » Read

On Sept. 1, 2025, Sir Mark Elder will begin an initial two-year term (with an option for a two-year extension) as music director at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia. He succeeds James Gaffigan, who announced this past December that he would … » Read

In a vote of confidence in Maria Todaro , general director of Florida Grand Opera (FGO), philanthropists Tina Vidal-Duart and Carlos Duart have added a $1 million matching grant to their matching gift of $2 million to the company last year. The … » Read

Another national arts executive based in Washington, D.C. is making their exit, as the new administration takes up residence in the White House. Deborah Rutter, president and CEO of the Kennedy Center, has said she will leave at the end of the … » Read

Piano and winds were the order of the evening at the New York Philharmonic on Jan. 23: three works qualifying as concertos in substance, if not in name, including two relative rarities and one warhorse, all benefiting from the appearance of the … » Read

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has grouped several of its 80 New York concerts in 2025-26 under specific themes, the overriding one being The Magnificent Violin. Fittingly, the season opening on October 19 is dedicated to … » Read

During the past four months, the Jacksonville (FL) Symphony has received major gifts totaling $8 million. Last October longtime supporters Preston and Joan Haskell gave the ensemble $5 million, the largest gift in the organization’s 75-year … » Read