Charlotte Smith, editor of The Strad , is to succeed Oliver Condy as the editor of BBC Music magazine in January. Condy, who left in May after 17 years and many iterations of BBC Music ( published by the Immediate Media Group), has authored a new … » Read

When Chicago-based freelancer Hannah Edgar claims her amateur status as a violinist with pride, she speaks, in effect, for hundreds of musicians who make up the dozen community orchestras scattered throughout the Windy City. “I play violin … » Read

The standoff between the musicians of the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra (SASO) musicians and the Symphony Society of San Antonio, the board that oversees orchestra operations, is rapidly devolving from bad to worse. A story about the SASO posted … » Read

French conductor Ludovic Morlot is to succeed Kazushi Ono as music director of the Barcelona Symphony starting in fall 2022 for four seasons. Ono was recently tapped as the next music director of the Brussels Philharmonic , also in 2022, for five … » Read

There are mountains of music—rewarding music—that have rarely, if ever, been heard. “One of the chief causes of that neglect,” writes San Francisco Chronicle critic Joshua Kosman, “is race.” In 2018 the … » Read

John Roloff is the new COO of the Kansas City Symphony . He arrives from the Milwaukee Symphony, where, as VP of orchestra and facility operations, he functioned as executive producer for MSO’s live and media activities, including a … » Read

A new study conducted at the University of Toronto and Unity Health Toronto has found that beneficial brain plasticity in patients with mild cognitive impairment or early Alzheimer's disease results from repeated listening to personally … » Read

The Sphinx Organization has selected three recipients of its 2022 Venture Fund grants. Launched in 2020, the fund aims to invest $1.5mn over five years to support initiatives related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in classical music … » Read

LONDON--Whether it was the inclusion of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending —a work that recently topped the U.K.’s Classic FM Hall of Fame for the 11th year in a row—or the star power of American violinist Hilary Hahn, … » Read

Conductor Semyon Bychkov has cancelled his first trip to the U.S. in three years, quashing plans to conduct the Cleveland Orchestra November 11-13 and the New York Philharmonic November 17-19. Neither orchestra cited an official reason. In … » Read