LONDON--A new year brings new challenges as COVID continues its determined tussle with the arts here in the U.K. However, despite case numbers in London being off the charts, it seemed nothing was going to stop music lovers packing the Barbican … » Read

Violinist Geneva Lewis , Musical America’s June 2021 New Artist of the Month , has signed with Artist Management Group. Recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant and winner of the Grand Prize at the 2020 Concert Artists Guild (CAG) … » Read

Eugene Lavrenchuk, former director of the Moscow Polish Theater, the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theater, and Ukraine's first cinema and theater school, has been detained in Naples since Dec. 17. He was arrested on a Russian warrant when his flight … » Read

December was a very busy month for Lidiya Yankovskaya, music director of the Chicago Opera Theater. On Dec. 11, she conducted the opening of Mark Adamo’s Becoming Santa Claus . Five days later, she gave birth to her second child, and three … » Read

The January 11 Carnegie Hall concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra under its Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin has been postponed to February 21 at 8 pm, “due to COVID-related concerns arising from the large number of … » Read

On Jan. 4 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) handed a victory to the striking musicians of the Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra. In a ruling that found that the SSO had breached its agreement with the musicians by refusing to issue … » Read

Aficionados of irony may delight at the conundrum Taylor Swift faces when contemplating that Universal Music Group, her record label, and two of her closest collaborators at the label—head of publishing Jody Gerson and Troy … » Read

Does a white church choir’s performance of a Negro spiritual constitute cultural appropriation? That question led the parishioners of United Parish in Brookline, MA, and the congregation’s Minister of Music Susan DeSelms to arrive at … » Read

Among those rising from the ashes of the late Columbia Artists agency, Doug Sheldon, its onetime chair, has continued to expand his Sheldon Artists roster since its launch in late 2020. He also has two new staff members, including Suzanne Neely … » Read

In addition to naming James Gaffigan as its new general music director, Komische Oper Berlin has announced a new First Kapellmeister as of 2022-23, one season ahead of Gaffigan. She is German conductor Erina Yashima , current assistant conductor … » Read