On the heels of Steven Sloane's brief tenu re, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra has announced violinist and conductor Julian Rachlin as its next music director, effective in October 2023, at the launch of its 85th-anniversary season. Dubbed … » Read

The Marseille Opera House and Philharmonic have named Italian conductor Michele Spotti, 29, to be the next music director, starting in 2023-24. He will succeed American conductor Lawrence Foster, 81. The announcement was made yesterday by … » Read

The Queen Sonja Singing Competition, a biennial event whose past winners include Lise Davidsen, will start accepting applications for the inaugural rounds as of February 1, with a deadline of April 1. Live rounds in Oslo run August 17-26, with … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera’s press department, which falls under the jurisdiction of Marketing and Communications, headed by Assistant General Manager Gillian Brierley, is looking rather different than it did before Dan Wakin arrived one year … » Read

The Cincinnati Symphony has announced a total of 11 new musicians, plus a new principal librarian and previously announced assistant conductors Samuel Lee and Daniel Wiley . Like everything else in the world, the pandemic wreaked havoc with … » Read

It seems odd to speak of a composer’s “late style” when the composer, Franz Schubert, died at 31. But the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) made the case convincingly at the opening of its “Winter Festival: The … » Read

The current season marks the final one for the Emerson String Quartet . Founded in 1976 by two Juilliard graduates—violinists Philip Setzer and Eugene Drucker—the foursome, which also includes Lawrence Dutton (a member from 1977) and … » Read

Some injustices linger far longer than others. In the case of timpanist Elayne Jones, who  died this past December at 94, it was almost fifty years earlier when her case for tenure with the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) was denied despite … » Read

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra (SDSO), with a core of nine professional musicians and an annual budget of $2.3 million, has received a contribution of $2 million from native son and billionaire Dean Buntrock, founder and longtime chief of … » Read

Any orchestral concert depends for its success on the equal collaboration among musicians, conductor, and, especially for new works, the composer. Absent such a partnership, writes Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle , “sorrowful … » Read