For more than 15 years, Kelly Hall-Tompkins has augmented her career as a concert violinist with a unique form of outreach. In addition to traditional activities like giving master classes for young musicians and performing in schools, she and … » Read

Alexander Brose, founding executive director and CEO of The Tianjin Juilliard School, will exit at the end of the 2021-22 academic year after five years in the job , three since it opened. He leaves as  Reuters reported in mid-March that … » Read

The 2022-2023 season of Belgium's Théâtre royal de la Monnaie, announced by its General and Artistic Director Peter de Caluwe, includes several works that had been postponed during the pandemic as well as new additions to the … » Read

CHICAGO—The Haymarket Opera Company (HOC) opened its 2022 season March 26 with a spellbinding performance of La Susanna , a significant if little-known oratorio written in 1681 by Alessandro Stradella. A middle-period Baroque Italian … » Read

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s second season as music director at the San Francisco Symphony includes a handful of world premieres, a two-week festival of horror-themed music around Halloween, the continuation of a four-year collaboration with … » Read

Anne Parsons, longtime president and resilient leader of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, died last night after a long battle with cancer. She was 64. Parsons, who  retired in December after 17 years in the job, accomplished major milestones, … » Read

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2022-2023 season will mark the 13 th and last year of Riccardo Muti’s tenure as music director, and, by season’s end, his 500 th appearance on the CSO podium since 1973. His musical legacy and … » Read

Paul Hughes, general manager and director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, and BBC Singers, will step down from his posts after 23 years. His last day will be the First Night of this year’s Proms, July 15, 2022. Hughes’s … » Read

Spotify reports that in 2021 it paid $7bn to music industry rights holders, an amount that accounted for more than one quarter of the recording industry’s $25.9bn in total revenue. The year-end total represented an 18.5 percent increase … » Read

The Madison (WI) Symphony Orchestra (MSO), approaching its 97 th season in 2022-23, has appointed Robert A. Reed [pictured] as its new executive director, starting full time on June 6, 2022. He succeeds Rick Mackie, who retired last June. The MSO … » Read