The Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, aka the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra, has named Christoph Gedschold to be its next chief conductor, effective with the 2024-2025 season and succeeding Toshiyuki Kamioka, in the job from 2016-2022. Gedschold, … » Read

LONDON—Sir Simon Rattle’s six years at the helm of the London Symphony Orchestra has seen a return to world-beating form following the lumpy and now politically awkward Gergiev era. This June 14 concert at London’s Barbican … » Read

Because ticket sales come nowhere close to underwriting operating costs for classical music organizations, support from individuals, corporations, governments, and foundations plays a key role, sometimes determining what happens on stage, … » Read

Conductor Elim Chan has been on an upward trajectory ever since becoming the first woman to win the London Symphony Orchestra’s Donatalla Flick Competition back in 2014, serving as the LSO’s assistant conductor under Gergiev for the … » Read

The Houston-born conductor Garrett Keast initially kept his American background under wraps when he first moved to Berlin in 2011. But when the pandemic cancelled his conducting gigs, he elected to go all-in on his connection to his homeland and … » Read

LONDON (AP) — Hans Zimmer, the two-time Academy Award-winning composer, proposed to his partner on stage in London, prompting raucous applause from the audience. As his performance at the O2 arena was drawing to a close Thursday evening, … » Read

OJAI, CA—The main event of the 2023 Ojai Music Festival was the premiere of Omar’s Journey , the scaled down version of Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s Pultizer Prize- winning opera about the enslaved West African Muslim … » Read

Seventeen music publishers, ranging from industry giants such as Universal, Sony, and BMG to niche brands like Gene Autry’s Western Music and Rick’s Music, have  filed suit against Twitter in a Nashville federal court and are … » Read

Violinist Yeyeong Jenny Jin (South Korea/US) has won the 2023 Michael Hill International Violin Competitio n in Auckland, NZ. The 20-year-old Juilliard student took home cash prizes of $24,920 and $1,246 (for chamber music), as well as a … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO-- El último sueño de Frida y Diego  (or The Last Dream of Frida and Diego) has a complicated back story and a complicated genesis and a complicated plot. But the result, first seen locally on June 8 as the final … » Read