The 2022–23 season of Cal Performances will feature more than 70 live music, dance, and theater performances. Capturing special attention during the year will be three co-commissions, 20 premieres, and multiple artist debuts. The third … » Read

The Solti Foundation U.S. has tapped Earl E. Lee, assistant conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra, as the 2022 recipient of the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. This annual recognition, now over two decades old, goes to a promising American … » Read

Anne-Marie McDermott is to exit as artistic director of Santa Fe Pro Musica as of July 31, after two years in the job. McDermott, an accomplished pianist who performs internationally, is also artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Festival.   … » Read

Fashioned after last summer’s 2021 “Restart Stages,” the outdoor, multigenre, multi-stage festival sprawled across Lincoln Center’s acreage, the Center’s “Summer for the City” 2022 program seeks to be … » Read

Quebec-based composer Ana Sokolovic , whose opera Svadba was filmed and then  streamed earlier this year by Opera Philadelphia, is to be the new artistic director of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ), … » Read

The admonition “Never again” has served as a powerful reminder of the evils perpetrated during the Holocaust. But as time passes and remembrances of the horrors of World War II grow fainter, the need to remind people becomes greater … » Read

Although a classical music performance is both an aural and visual experience, the latter aspect has historically been all but ignored. But with the relaxation of formal dress codes among some orchestras, and the emergence of Yuja Wang as equal … » Read

Conductor Michael Jinbo, longtime music director of the Monteux School and Music Festival in Hancock, ME, died yesterday after suffering a brain hemorrhage on April 17. He was only the third artistic chief of the school, founded nearly 80 years … » Read

The World Federation of International Music Competitions has cancelled the membership of the Moscow-based International Tchaikovsky Competition. “The WFIMC as an apolitical organization cannot support or have as a member, a competition … » Read

For the past 13 years, Gavriel Heine has been an important presence at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater, where as a resident conductor he has led performances of classics like Swan Lake and The Rite of Spring . As a protégé … » Read