The 2023 Sphinx Competition concluded over the weekend, with violinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious taking the top prize of $50,000 plus a number of solo appearances with major orchestras. She won the $5,000 Audience Choice Prize as well. A graduate … » Read

Last weekend marked the first major West Coast appearance by soprano Julia Bullock in three years, when she sang the role of Dame Shirley in Girls of the Golden West by John Adams [ see today’s review ]. First Covid, and then the birth of … » Read

How does she do it? The 35-year-old pianist Yuja Wang showed strategy, passion, and poise but little strain when playing all five Rachmaninoff piano and orchestra works in a single concert Saturday afternoon at Carnegie Hall. The … » Read

The Munich Philharmonic has announced 34-year-old Israeli conductor Lahav Shani as it next music director. Shani will succeed Valery Gergiev,  fired for his support of Vladimir Putin, and in the process assume a position previously held by … » Read

LONDON--The London Philharmonic Orchestra has an enviable track record when it comes to Elgar’s First Symphony. In the 1960s and 70s, LPO recorded it twice under Principal Conductor Sir Adrian Boult, and in 1975 did so again under his … » Read

The 47 th season of Spoleto Festival USA will run May 26-June 11 with more than100 events in venues throughout Charleston, SC. The second iteration under Mena Mark Hanna, CEO and general director, opens with a concert celebrating the late Geoff … » Read

Irish conductor Killian Farrell has signed with HarrisonParrott, his first artist management firm. Farrell is the designated generalmusikdirektor of the Staatstheater Meiningen and first kapellmeister of the Staatsoper Stuttgart where his current … » Read

Berlin Philharmonic Principal Conductor Kirill Petrenko has been forced to cancel all of his February concerts, due to follow-up surgery on a previous foot injury. The first surgery was last August, This applies to both the subscription concerts, … » Read

Still currently in its centennial season, the San Francisco Opera has announced the launch of its second century as of September 2023, running through June of 2024 with a number of works new to the house, three of them co-productions. Those are … » Read

Lee Elman, who cofounded the Aston Magna Foundation and Festival 50 years ago with the late harpsichordist Albert Fuller, died on November 27, 2022, at Mount Sinai Hospital, of complications from heart surgery. He was 86. Aston Magna, the … » Read