Alexander Brose, who was named to succeed Dr. Peter Simon [pictured] as president & CEO of Canada’s Royal Conservatory of Music this past February, has begun the year-long transition period to take over the job. Simon will have led the … » Read

Gaetano Donizetti was one of the early 19 th- century’s most prolific opera composers, writing almost 70 works between 1816 and his death in 1843. But for almost a century afterward, few of his works other than Lucia di Lammermoor and Don … » Read

Although the administration of the Cleveland Institute of Music cleared conductor Carlos Kalmar of Title IX allegations in August , finding the charges without substance, a number of students remain unconvinced of the innocence of the school's … » Read

The theme of “Summer of Paradise” proved just right for the five-week 2023 Lucerne Festival, which attracted 13,800 more concertgoers—a 12 percent increase—than did the previous summer’s festivities. Over 84,000 … » Read

The Monterey Jazz Festival has announced that composer and musician Darin Atwater is to succeed Tim Jackson as artistic director. Jackson is retiring after leading the world’s longest continuously-running jazz festival for 32 years. A … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — In a mammoth room behind translucent marble walls, workers are setting the stage for the World Trade Center’s newest addition. It isn’t another office tower, nor is it a monument, at least explicitly, to the … » Read

One 93-year-old man is responsible for some of Finland’s greatest exports—orchestra conductors. The well-seasoned Esa-Pekka Salonen, leading female conductors like Susanna Mälkki and Dalia Stasevska, and rising stars Klaus … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced that its Music Director Franz Welser-Möst has withdrawn from all concerts starting at the end of October through the end of the year. “He recently had a cancerous tumor removed and will need to … » Read

Fourteen-year old Seohyun Kim , from South Korea, won the 2023 International Tibor Varga Violin Competition over the weekend. The youngest participant in the event, she takes home CHF20,000 (£18,000).  Second prize went to Raphael … » Read

CHICAGO — Classical music might be ever more undefinable, but one constant is usually assured: works are written by, and reverently credited to, a single composer. For Third Coast Percussion, all bets are off. For the better part of a … » Read