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

The Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan is to be the new home for the Tureck Bach Research Institute. Founded in 1981 by the much-celebrated pianist and scholar, the Institute includes manuscripts of essays, books, correspondence, and … » Read

“It’s definitely retaliatory,” says Mary Ellen Goree, head of the San Antonio Symphony Players Committee, in response to the  orchestra’s firing of Music Director Emeritus Sebastian Lang-Lessing.   “The … » Read

Radu Lupu, widely regarded as one of the world´s greatest pianists, has died at the age of 76, the organizers of the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest announced. "We are deeply saddened to find out about the death of Maestro Radu Lupu, a … » Read

As if relations between the San Antonio Symphony and its musicians—on strike since the beginning of the season—weren’t already sour enough, management has now fired the orchestra’s music director/emeritus of 12 years for, … » Read

LONDON (AP) — Harrison Birtwistle, the creator of daringly experimental modern music who was recognized as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary composers, has died at 87. Birtwistle’s publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, said he … » Read

LOS ANGELES – The ever-innovative Los Angeles Philharmonic reaches out everywhere, this time to a new and perhaps unlikely audience – the Deaf. And its aim was true, for members of that community turned out in considerable … » Read