In a ceremony at Boston’s Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain on Oct. 20, composer, educator, and author Dr. Bill Banfield received the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award, aka the Call to Service Award, which was created in 2003 by … » Read

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra Association have ratified a collective bargaining agreement calling for minimum salaries to increase by 15.8% over three years--not the 19.6% … » Read

Succeeding  Paul Helfrich as executive director of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra is Karina Bharne, currently in that job with Symphony Tacoma in Washington. Prior to her five years in Tacoma, Bharne served as interim executive director … » Read

Pacific Opera Victoria has made two major appointments: a new artistic director and a new principal conductor. Filling the former post is Brenna Corner, a free-lance opera director currently based in Atlanta; she succeeds Founding Artistic … » Read

Maxime Pascal [pictured], founding music director of the Paris-based multi-media music group Le Balcon, is to be the chief conductor of Sweden’s Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, one of the country’s oldest, its origins dating to 1912. … » Read

New data from the National Endowment for the Arts reveals that significantly fewer American adults are attending cultural activities such as classical music concerts, theater productions, and movies. One survey found that just 48 percent of … » Read

It is time now, submits Simon Woods, president and CEO of the League of American Orchestras, to ask, “How well orchestra boards are functioning in the 21 st century and what might need reassessment.” Writing in the League-published … » Read

Conductors Elias Peter Brown and Aleksandra Melaniuk will join the San Francisco Symphony conducting staff in the 2023–24 season as Salonen Fellows. In 2018 Esa-Pekka Salonen joined the Colburn School Conservatory of Music’s faculty, … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic recently announced the appointment of two new members. David Cooper [pictured] joins as associate principal horn from the Chicago Symphony, where he has been principal horn for the past four years. Prior postings … » Read

How many song cycles can you think of that were conceived for a female protagonist? Most fanciers of the art of song will name Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben , but can they come up with others? Mezzo-soprano Kate Linsey did so in fine … » Read