Two weeks ago, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw  announced its next chief conductor, as successor to Daniele Gatti, who was fired amid claims of sexual harassment in 2018. Now, some ten days later, Gatti has been announced as the next chief … » Read

“If an air aid lasts for longer than an hour, the performance is cancelled." If less than an hour, the cost of a  ticket includes free access to the bomb shelter. The announcement launched the gala reopening of the Odesa National … » Read

A two-thirds majority of the Ukrainian parliament has voted to ban some Russian music in media and public spaces. The works banned include those created or performed by anyone who is or was a Russian citizen after 1991—the year Ukraine … » Read

It looks like Riccardo Muti will be able to conduct his grand finale as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s music director after all. He tested positive for Covid-19 last week and was forced to hand his baton over to conducting apprentice Lina … » Read

CHICAGO—Haymarket Opera Company, a small Chicago troupe presenting Baroque opera on period instruments, doesn’t shy away from big challenges. Last year, in the middle of the pandemic, the company celebrated its tenth anniversary with … » Read

On June 16 the nonprofit Community Music Center of Boston (CMCB), which serves more than 4,000 students every week, received a special visitor when the renowned cellist (and Cambridge resident) Yo-Yo Ma came to call. Last October, Ma met Lecolion … » Read

For the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), variety is both the spice and the sustenance of life. While most arts presenters struggled to reclaim their balance after the pandemic, BAM just completed one of its best years ever. Even better was the … » Read

Edvard Grieg’s widely popular Peer Gynt is most often performed in one of the composer’s two orchestral suites (written in 1888 and 1893), derived from the incidental music he wrote for Heinrik Ibsen’s 1876 play of the same … » Read

South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim took the gold last night at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, TX. At age 18, he becomes the youngest ever to win the 60-year-old competition and the second Korean in a row, after … » Read

Capping a career that has revolutionized at least three major American orchestras, Deborah Borda will step down as the New York Philharmonic’s president and CEO as of June 30, 2023, but not without devising a typically savvy succession … » Read