Three musicians are recipients of the Sphinx Organization’s 2023 Medal of Excellence. Cellist Thomas Mesa, soprano Aundi Marie Moore, and composer Joel Thompson will each receive the medal and a $50,000 career grant recognizing … » Read

Just under one year after taking the job, Peter Mraz has resigned as president and CEO of the American Pianists Association.  Mraz succeeded Joel Harrison, with APA for 21 years before retiring in June of 2021. Mraz’s hiring was a bit … » Read

Boundary-pushing trio Time for Three (TF3),  known for its equal facility across a panoply of genres and vintages, has joined Opus 3 Artists for North American representation. (For general management, it remains with Park Avenue … » Read

The Gogol Center, the daring and often controversial theater revivified by the film and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov, is no more. On June 29, the Moscow Department of Culture announced that the contracts for artistic director and … » Read

AIX-EN-PROVENCE— The Aix Opera Festival is thriving under the artistic direction of Pierre Audi, now in his fourth summer at the helm, and the riches on offer in 2022 are copious indeed. That’s not to suggest that everything in the … » Read

The Met Opera may not be offering its free streams anymore, but for those willing to contend with the elements, it will screen free HD encore performances August 27-September 5 in Lincoln Center Plaza. First up, though, on August 26,is Steven … » Read

In 1998 cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded the Silk Road Project, a touring ensemble of musicians devoted to cross-cultural collaboration and bringing music to underserved communities. When he announced his plans to step aside in 2017, a trio of its … » Read

Opera Parallèle’s new production of Philip Glass’s 1994 opera La Belle et la Bête ( Beauty and the Beast ) is, writes Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle , “a wondrous artistic hybrid combining film and … » Read

On Friday, the Bayreuth Festival announced that Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen has Covid, and so has had to withdraw from conducting the new production of The Ring , scheduled to open July 31. Cornelius Meister, 42, general music director of … » Read

With Russia and Ukraine in the news on a daily basis, their respective artists have been especially visible on the competitions circuit, not least at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition , where a Russian and a Ukrainian took second … » Read