Eastern Music Festival (EMF), est. 1962, has cancelled its upcoming iteration for the first time ever, save for the pandemic. The event, scheduled this year for June 28-August 2, is held annually on the campus of Guilford College in Greensboro, … » Read

Yuki Hirano took home first prize at the Seventh International Heifetz Competition for Violinist s, held on Feb. 21 and 22 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The 21-year-old Japanese musician, currently a student at the Music and Arts University of the City … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—As part of its cost-saving regimen, the San Francisco Symphony has said it will commission fewer new works in the future. But one that was already in the pipeline, Xavier Muzik’s Strange Beasts , received its world … » Read

The mean-spiritedness of Trump 2.0 was on full display last week when the U.S. Marine Band canceled a May concert program scheduled for the Northern Virginia Community College campus “in accordance with recent Executive Orders.” The … » Read

The bloodletting that began four years ago at New York Public Radio is continuing, with a fourth round of cuts announced on Feb. 25. In an email to staff, CEO LaFontaine Oliver disclosed that 21 full-time positions and seven open … » Read

Joshua Elmore, whose tenure as the principal bassoon of the San Francisco Symphony officially begins at the end of the March, arrives with a slew of rising young artist credentials. A onetime member of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth … » Read

On March 1 James Kallembach’s opera American Jezebel: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson will receive a semi-staged concert performance at Harvard University’s Sanders Theater. The opera explores historical themes such as religious freedom, … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Award-winning singer-musician Rhiannon Giddens has become the latest artist to call off an appearance at the Kennedy Center, which has been in upheaval since Donald Trump forced out the center’s leadership and was … » Read

The auspicious 2025 recital series at the Park Avenue Armory takes place in the intimate Board of Officers Room, a space of period elegance quite unlike the vast Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Four of the six recitals are by singers, with … » Read

The Annapolis Symphony Orchestra (ASO) has appointed Erica Bondarev Rapach, who has been serving as executive director in an interim capacity since September of 2024, to the position permanently as of March 1, 2025. She is the fifth person to … » Read