Last summer’s Cabrillo Music Festival proved chaotic when a Covid outbreak decimated the orchestra’s woodwind and brass sections midway through the season, forcing Music Director Cristian Macelaru to redo the program for the entire … » Read

In the midst of the pandemic, Alisa Weilerstein decided to take a vacation from her cello. When she returned to playing a few weeks later she began with scales, a meditative exercise that enabled her to consider the nature of the classical … » Read

NORTH ADAMS, MA—Venerable composer Joan Tower was pleased, if somewhat nonplussed, to find herself at the annual Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art). It would seem an unusual context for this … » Read

Anna Handler [pictured], currently conducting Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges at the Salzburg Festival, has joined Opus 3 for representation in North and South America. Recently named a Dudamel Fellow for 2023-24, the … » Read

Classical music aficionados have generally been ill-served by the music streaming industry, argues Alex Ross. The New Yorker critic is no fan of the industry, damning it for the pittances paid to artists as well as its destructive environmental … » Read

An artist’s success in the world of classical music can often rely on a strong working partnership with a manager who books performances, handles all the attendant logistics, and does a lot of hand holding. The Curtis Institute of … » Read

Will Anna Netrebko be permitted to perform a concert at Prague’s Municipal House, currently scheduled for October 16? In a statement issued on July 31, Jirí Pospíšil, the city’s deputy mayor, reported that the … » Read

Isaac Thompson, Managing Director of the New York Philharmonic, is to be the next President and CEO of the Oregon Symphony, moving from No. 2 at the former to No. 1 in Oregon. He starts in October. In New York, Thompson was the first top hire in … » Read

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — Two years after the debut of the Bayreuth Festival’s first female conductor, Nathalie Stutzmann became the second to lead a Wagner opera in the Festpielhaus’s famous covered pit. The 58-year-old former … » Read

Violinist Boson Mo , recent acting assistant concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony and member of the Houston Symphony, is to be the concertmaster of the Phoenix Symphony as of next fall. He succeeds Steven Moeckel, new concertmaster of the … » Read