Following its final performance of the season last Friday, the La Jolla Music Society SummerFest announced that it had renewed pianist Inon Barnatan’s contract as music director of the series. Barnatan first signed in … » Read

The Nashville Symphony has promoted its assistant conductor Nathan Aspinall , in the job since 2019, to associate as of this season, pointing to his reading last year of Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony as a particular success. Upcoming is … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera is dropping its vaccination requirement for audiences next season but still will mandate the wearing of masks. The decision announced Tuesday differentiates the Met from Broadway theaters, which l … » Read

Symphonic music in San Antonio seems to have at least nine lives. Just three months after the 83-year-old San Antonio Symphony (SAS) closed up shop , most of the ensemble’s former musicians are back as the San Antonio Philharmonic. The … » Read

Since 2014 Britain's Aurora Orchestra has built a reputation for its performances of entire symphonies from memory. In The Strad , principal double bass Benjamin Griffiths recalls the ensemble’s initial performance of Mozart’s … » Read

The 55-member Central City Chorus, an all-volunteer Manhattan-based ensemble now in its fourth decade, has appointed Bryan Zaros, a protégé of New York choral king Kent Tritle, to be its music director, starting with the coming … » Read

In a move that, on the surface, appears a win-win, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra (ISO) will collaborate with Illinois State University’s (ISU) Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts and School of Music by moving its performances on campus to … » Read

If Salzburg Festival Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser was justified in calling the festival’s first-ever performances of Puccini’s Il Trittico “important,” it had little robust competition, as illustrated by the … » Read

Lincoln Center has announced its programming for the coming season and, as if to underline its executive layer’s distrust of the classical idiom, much less the canon, it will present a potpourri of the hippest trends in cross-genre, nod to … » Read

The 2½-year, $150 million  refurbishment of the Sydney Opera House has produced one of the best concert halls in the world. So says Simone Young,  chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Peter McCallum, the Sydney … » Read