The first product of the Emerging Black Composers Project , the two-year-old commissioning project of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is set for its premiere on Sept. 29 with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting … » Read

Elias Grandy, general music director of the City of Heidelberg, inclusive of its opera and philharmonic, will step down at the end of the season after eight years in the job. Grandy, 42, has been taking on increasing guest conducting jobs of late … » Read

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rossini’s Otello premiered in 1816, and the musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play was a hit for seven decades. Then Verdi’s version debuted in 1887 and was acclaimed as a pinnacle of the art … » Read

Since the pandemic, quite a number of new musicians have joined the Dallas Symphony, including former Atlanta Symphony principal trumpet Stuart Stephenson, succeeding the late Ryan Anthony in that role with the DSO. Also new are associate … » Read

LONDON—Last year, Edward Gardner  opened the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s season with Michael Tippett’s glorious, yet rarely performed opera, The Midsummer Marriage . If that proved the incoming principal … » Read

The New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra have welcomed new musicians and administrative staff in anticipation of their upcoming 2022-23 seasons.  In New York three violinists are the first musicians to join the orchestra … » Read

Gustavo Dudamel—Musical America’s 2013 Artist of the Year , current artistic head of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Paris Opera—has been given the fourteenth Glenn Gould Prize, a biennial award honoring its namesake’s … » Read

The tenth International Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition, whose three top prize winners performed in a gala in Vienna on September 25, has announced 17-year-old Guido Sant’Anna e Silva of Brazil as the top winner. His  compatriot … » Read

Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra have inked a new four-year collective bargaining agreement that extends through August 31, 2026. The contract smooths the way for the transition from Osmo Vänskä to Danish conductor Thomas … » Read

Twenty-eight-year-old American violinist Sirena Huang has won the 11 th quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, taking home $75,000 along with a recording contract, a Carnegie Hall recital debut, and management and marketing … » Read