MONTREAL--A powerful sense of interculturalism dominated this year's edition of the Azrieli Music Prizes. Two of the three works showcased at the October 20 prize-winners gala concert were written by immigrants to Canada, and both blended Western … » Read

José Martinez, former director of the National Dance Company of Spain and Étoile dancer of the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, is to be the next director of the Paris Opera Ballet. He starts in December, succeeding Aurélie … » Read

Beginning anew in a foreign country is never easy. For Mikhail Voskresensky, an 87-year-old Russian pianist, his decision to defect to the U.S. after his country invaded Ukraine set in motion a series of events—still underway—that … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra has added another associate principal concertmaster to its ranks. She is Angela Wee, a recent Juilliard alumna currently teaching in the school’s pre-college program. At the Met she joins a top-drawer … » Read

G. Schirmer and the Exilarte Center for Banned Music in Vienna are partnering to make available more than 400 works banned by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s. Over 300 songs, 100 chamber music works, 50 orchestral works, several vocal and … » Read

Some of the most refined and purposeful singing heard today is in the early music community, as exemplified by Vox Luminis in two concerts on consecutive days that were high points in the New York season. In fact, the group actually eclipsed its … » Read

Singaporean conductor Kahchun Wong has signed with HarrisonParrott for general management. The 2016 winner of the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition, he recently completed his final season as Nürnberger Symphoniker’s chief conductor … » Read

London’s Chineke! Orchestra, the first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra in Europe, made a notable debut in 2017 at the BBC Proms and two years later received the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Gamechanger Award. A recent … » Read

Sustaining a career as a professional classical musician is difficult under any circumstance. As “Bittersweet Symphony,” a new report suggests, it is exponentially more so if you are a parent or a caregiver for an older or disabled … » Read

In a recent Zoom press conference with U.S. media, Berlin Philharmonic Music Director Kirill Petrenko thought back to the spring of 2020, when his first season as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic was abruptly stopped by the coronavirus … » Read