It’s not easy to find negative things to say about the season premiere of Idomeneo at the Metropolitan Opera on September 28, the second night of its new season. But isn’t it time to retire Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s 40-year-old … » Read

The San Diego Symphony has announced its new director of artistic planning. Alan J. Benson joins the organization from New York, where he was director of artistic administration at the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Benson—familiarly known … » Read

Classical music agency Intermusica has expanded its international reach by appointing Dennis Gerlach as senior artist manager. At the same time they are establishing a new office for the company in Munich. The U.K.-based management, which also … » Read

Last Friday, NPR news program All Things Considered posed the question, where are the Black musicians in the country's largest orchestras? The response was gloomy. In 2014, the League of American Orchestras published a study that found that only … » Read

Teodor Currentzis is to step down as chief conductor of Stuttgart’s SWR Symphony Orchestra at the end of the 2024-25 season, it has been announced. The controversial Greek-Russian maestro has been under fire since the outbreak of the war in … » Read

A performance? An art installation? Or a secular ritual fashioned for the post-pandemic 21st century? All definitions loosely apply, but especially the ritual definition in Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), a new work playing at New York’s … » Read

Yukine Kuroki, a student of Fumiko Eguchi at the Showa University of Music in Japan, has won the 2022 Liszt Utrecht piano competition. The Japanese pianist, born in 1998, carried off the first prize of 25,000 Euros, with American pianist Derek … » Read

Like many young cellists, Jonathan Swensen fell in love with the instrument during a performance of the Elgar concerto. He was six at the time. It was therefore a dream come true when, 14 years later, he made his concerto debut playing the same … » Read

French conductor Stéphane Denève will succeed Michael Tilson Thomas as artistic director of the New World Symphony as of the 2022-23 season. MTT, who cofounded NWS with Ted and Lin Arison 35 years ago, will stay connected to his … » Read

This year’s annual meeting of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra was cause for celebration, as the ensemble announced that the conclusion of its 2021/22 season brought with it the elimination of an accumulated deficit that had bedeviled the TSO … » Read