Conductor/composer Yaniv Segal (pictured) is to be the next music director of the Salina (KS) Symphony; he was one of five finalists for the job who guest conducted this season for a post that drew more than 100 applications. Known for his … » Read

Pianist Alexander Toradze, who suffered heart failure during a performance with the Vancouver Symphony on April 23 but carried on to its end before being hospitalized, died yesterday at this home in South Bend, IN. He was 69. He appeared to have … » Read

The co-chair of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center has given $3 million to the former to endow its principal guest conductor chair, occupied by French contralto/conductor Nathalie Stutzmann, 57. The current season is the first of the … » Read

Michael Tilson Thomas’s impact on the musical life of Miami has been profound. For 35 years he was artistic director of the New World Symphony, the ensemble he co-founded as a launching pad for young classical musicians. The plaudits MTT … » Read

After a two-year long shutdown, the expenditure of more than $150mn ($103.5mn U.S.), and repeated delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Sydney Opera House is in the final stages of completing a much-needed renovation. The improved venue, … » Read

The Dallas Symphony-Fabio Luisi partnership, launched in 2020-21 but interrupted by Covid, has been progressing nicely, marked by several operas in concert and a continuing  connection to the Met Opera sparked by his six years there as … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Pan-American Music Initiative got underway in 2020 but got sidelined, like everything else, by the pandemic. Now it has taken the form of a five-year project of music from the Western Hemisphere, including the … » Read

Raven Chacon, a member of the Navajo Nation who lives in Albuquerque, has received the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Voiceless Mass , a work for ensemble and pipe organ. It was an unexpected honor for an artist whose work in music, video, and … » Read

Exiled Ukrainian musicians have come together in Berlin to form “Mriya” (the Ukrainian word for dream), an orchestra of more than 30 players that presented its first concert on May 10. Funded in part by the aid organization … » Read

Symphony San Jose, formerly Symphony Silicon Valley, formerly San Jose Symphony, has named Robert Massey as its general director. He is to succeed the 20-year-old ensemble’s founder Andrew Bales, who is retiring. Massey's most recent … » Read