The Royal Albert Hall has appointed James Ainscough as its new chief executive officer, effective in the late spring of 2023. He succeeds Craig Hassall, who s tepped down on December 16, 2022 to become president and chief executive of Playhouse … » Read

Since 2016 a train linking Berlin to the southwestern city of Wroclaw in Poland has offered more than 80,000 passengers the opportunity to pay only €19 ($20) to encounter writers, musicians, creative artists, a library, and a permanent … » Read

Lydia Tár, the conducting phenomenon at the core of the eponymous motion picture , doesn’t exist. But she bears a remarkable resemblance to Marin Alsop, the real world’s most famous female conductor. Alsop, however, is quick to … » Read

David Binder, artistic director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music since 2019 , has announced his plans to exit in July. Having come from the commercial-theater world (he was lead producer of the Tony Award-winning Hedwig and the Angry Inch , among … » Read

The combination of Thomas Søndergård, music director designate of the Minnesota Orchestra; the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; and Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 produced an evening of music that drove one critic to superlatives. … » Read

Du Yun is a Shanghai- and U.S.- trained composer and performer, now based in New York. Her best-known works are the opera Angel’s Bone , first heard in 2016 at the Prototype Festival in New York and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for … » Read

One needn’t look far for premieres of new music in the New York Philharmonic’s current season, but few will have the sheer size or impose the interpretive challenges of Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg’s Third Piano Concerto. … » Read

Bernadette Horgan, director of public relations for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and as such a member of the BSO senior management team, is stepping down from her position as of January 20.  She has been with the orchestra for 35 years, or, … » Read

The cutbacks to opera companies instituted by Arts Council England in November 2022 have claimed another victim—the touring program that Glyndebourne has offered for over 50 years. Stephen Langridge, the company’s artistic director, … » Read

Since 2017 Matthew Wright and Tim Vincent-Smith have been staging events around Edinburgh in pop-up  Pianodrome venues made entirely from “upcycled” pianos. The initial Pianodrome, located at the Royal Botanic Garden, attracted … » Read