Piano and winds were the order of the evening at the New York Philharmonic on Jan. 23: three works qualifying as concertos in substance, if not in name, including two relative rarities and one warhorse, all benefiting from the appearance of the … » Read

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has grouped several of its 80 New York concerts in 2025-26 under specific themes, the overriding one being The Magnificent Violin. Fittingly, the season opening on October 19 is dedicated to … » Read

During the past four months, the Jacksonville (FL) Symphony has received major gifts totaling $8 million. Last October longtime supporters Preston and Joan Haskell gave the ensemble $5 million, the largest gift in the organization’s 75-year … » Read

The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra (ASO) and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) have entered into a new collaboration centered around Matthew Kraemer, in his second season as the music director and principal conductor of the latter ensemble. … » Read

Soprano Lise Davidsen is pregnant with twins and is canceling her performances from mid-March through the end of the year. “I’m very excited about their arrival, and my new life with them,” she said in a statement Friday. … » Read

Throughout his six-decade career, Riccardo Muti has worked to confer dignity on Italian opera, banishing spurious traditions and approaching the music with absolute seriousness of purpose. The first half of the January 21 Chicago Symphony … » Read

Pianist and pedagogue Stephen Runge has been appointed by the University of Manitoba (CA) as dean of the faculty of music and director of the School of Art, effective May 1, 2025. He arrives into a tenured professorship after 11 years as head of … » Read

Three of today’s leading young conductors have extended their contracts in Tel Aviv, London, and Seattle. Lahav Shani , who succeeded Zubin Mehta as music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 2020, will continue in that position … » Read

The beleaguered creative industries in the U.K. are to receive a £60 million shot in the arm from the Labor government. The announcement came from Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy at a major economic growth summit attended by over 250 creative … » Read

JoAnn Falletta, music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, is to be artistic advisor and principal guest conductor of the Omaha Symphony as of 2025-26; she steps in as Ankush Kumar Bahl concludes this, his final season as music director. … » Read