LOS ANGELES – Late one night two decades ago, Esa-Pekka Salonen, architect Frank O. Gehry, and LA Philharmonic concertmaster Martin Chalifour donned hard hats and ventured downtown to an unfinished shell of a building that was soon to … » Read

Peter Oundjian, former longtime music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, recently named music director of the Colorado Music Festival , is to be principal conductor of the Colorado Symphony Association. The post, newly created, commits … » Read

Three major New York-based foundations are underwriting a $125mn program to offer 2,400 artists across New York State a guaranteed monthly income of $1,000 over 18 months. Another 300 will receive a $65,000-a-year job with a community-based … » Read

Foundations in Detroit and New York have recently awarded funding to support both well-established institutions and newly minted opera producers and administrators. In Detroit the William Davidson Foundation has announced respective grants of … » Read

To a director keen to make a statement, Fidelio can seem like a gift. Beethoven’s only opera, about the wife of a political prisoner who assumes a false identity to take on a job as an assistant warden and save her husband from … » Read

LONDON--When Galuppi and Lotti are among the better-known names on the program, you know you’re in for an evening of musical discoveries. That’s a fairly typical bill of fare where countertenor Jakub Józef Orlinski is … » Read

The Dallas Symphony has a new assistant conductor in Maurice Cohn , who in October led the orchestra in the premiere of Mason Bates’s Philharmonia Fantastique. He serves as cover for Music Director Fabio Luisi and oversees family concerts … » Read

The 35 th edition of Bravo! Vail, June 23 to August 4, 2022, plans to feature more than 60 concerts in what Artistic Director Anne-Marie McDermott calls “the return of full-scale orchestras, robust programming, family favorites, and concert … » Read

The first Spoleto Festival USA under its new General Director Mena Mark Hanna [pictured] sounds and looks rather different from its predecessors, although western classical music is still represented in the chamber music series and a few of the … » Read

American composer George Crumb, whose innovative, theatrically charged soundscapes explored a new kind of musical poetry, has died after a long and far-reaching career. He was 92. The Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning artist died on … » Read