Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici, full-time concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic for over 30 years, has left his position. In what the German Ministry of Culture describes as an amicable separation, he stepped down from the role at the end of … » Read

The Japan Art Association, under the honorary patronage of HIH Prince Hitachi, has announced its 2022 Praemium Imperiale Award winners as Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman, along with Chinese artist, activist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei, German … » Read

One of the people most important to the success of John Adams’s new opera Antony and Cleopatra is invisible to the audience. Before the curtain rises on every performance, Matthew Piatt climbs up a metal ladder under the stage of San … » Read

FRANCE & SPAIN--The Ravel Festival’s three weeks of late summer offerings took place in a range of Basque Country locales—in a farmhouse in the Spanish resort town of San Sebastian, on September 3 [see The Ravel Festival, Part I … » Read

On the night of March 10, Sergiy Ivanchuk, an aspiring Ukrainian opera singer, was helping fellow civilians flee the Russian assault on Kharkiv when he was shot five times. That he survived was a miracle; one of the four fleeing passengers in his … » Read

FRANCE & SPAIN— Almost as old as the Pyrenees Mountains that loom above it, the Basque community nestles in the crook where southwest France meets the north coast of Spain. The Basques are fiercely proud and protective of their ancient … » Read

Four rising artists have recently signed with their first artist management firms. Latvian conductor Aivis Greters [left], 29, has joined HarrisonParrott; in the last season alone, he made debuts the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Riga … » Read

Robert Spano, newly arrived as music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra after a 20-year stint in Atlanta, opened the season with a performance that was, according to Scott Cantrell in the Dallas New s, “compelling start to … » Read

Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), the Lenox, MA, summer program for young musicians ages 14 to 20 founded in 1954 that links the BU College of Fine Arts with Tanglewood and the BSO, has a new executive director in Nicole Wendl. She … » Read

When Queen Elizabeth II died on Sept. 8, the world of classical music lost a devoted patron, a monarch who inspired the creation of great music and supported the art form throughout her seven-decade reign. In 1930, when Elizabeth was only four … » Read