A sea change is underway in the San Francisco classical music world, as three new conductors assume their places after a year of silence. At the San Francisco Symphony, Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen finally takes the reins live. Among the … » Read

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, a multi-genre presenter in St. Paul, MN, has named Christopher Harrington as its president and CEO. The announcement arrives just ahead of the venue’s reopening after an 18-month pandemic shutdown, … » Read

The San Francisco Girls’ Chorus (SFGC) has promoted Adriana Marcial, interim executive director since August 2020, to the position full time. She succeeds J. Andrew Bradford, a former development director at Music@Menlo now interim … » Read

On Oct. 7, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will present the world premiere of Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich—her compositional debut with the orchestra. Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, one … » Read

Opening night at the Metropolitan Opera is always a big occasion. For Will Liverman, who sings Charles, the lead role in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones on Sept. 27, the evening holds promise of being a career-defining moment. … » Read

Andrea (Andi) Lamoreaux is exiting Chicago’s classical radio station WFMT after 52 years with the organization. She leaves October 1, some 20 years after being named music director. She started in 1969 as a music librarian, fresh from … » Read

It is heartbreaking, though hardly surprising, that Zohra, the all-female orchestra once based in Kabul, is a thing of the past. Once a symbol of the new freedom—for music, for women, for self-expression—the 40-member ensemble has no … » Read

The New England Conservatory of Music has added pianists Jonathan Biss and Marc-André Hamelin to its piano faculty with one-year appointments to begin with the start of the 2021 academic year. "Jonathan and Marc-André are two of the … » Read

Two major piano competitions concluded over the weekend: the Clara Haskil International, in Vevey, Switzerland, and the International Ferruccio Busoni, in Bolonzo, Italy. The finals for both occurred last Friday. Yumeka Nakagawa, 19, of Germany, … » Read

SANTA MONICA – If you were an operagoer in Southern California last week, your fix of the irrational art form might have taken place in a Santa Monica parking lot at 5th St. and Arizona Ave. You would have been sitting in a row of … » Read