As of September 1, Kevin Kwan Loucks, an Orange-county based chamber musician and entrepreneur, is the new CEO of Chamber Music America. He succeeds Margaret Loi, who  announced her retirement last November. Loucks’s wide-ranging … » Read

Helga Rabl-Stadler, the no-nonsense president of the Salzburg Festival since 1995, will exit her lofty position at the close of this year’s event. She had been planning to do so earlier, after the close of its 100 th anniversary in 2020. … » Read

LONDON--The August 12 BBC Prom concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall was much anticipated for Vladimir Jurowski taking his farewell of the orchestra he has helmed as principal conductor for 14 remarkable years. Under his tenure, the London … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — On a chilly Easter Sunday 82 years ago, a tall, elegant Black woman walked down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before an integrated crowd of 75,000 and sang her way into the history books. Marian Anderson performed for … » Read

Richard Woodhams, who retired as principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2018, has been “retired” from The Curtis Institute of Music as well. The school has informed him that his contract will not be renewed. No reason was … » Read

The explosive growth of TikTok and YouTube—users of the former increased from three million to 14 million between September 2019 and March 2021—has generated an enormous demand for music from content creators for those platforms. But … » Read

Lincoln Center will distribute a $20 million gift from Lynne and Richard Pasculano among four of its constituents to defray the many millions of losses from the pandemic and to encourage cross collaborations. A New York Times article mentions the … » Read

Italian conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti, best remembered for his near-decade-long tenure as music and artistic director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, has died at age 75 in Monte Carlo. Born in Rome in 1945, he studied at the Accademia … » Read

On July 28, Riccardo Muti turned 80 and, just before, gave an interview to the Corriere della Sera . In his popular blog Gramilano , Milan-based journalist Graham Spicer has translated excerpts in which the maestro speaks from his throne of deep … » Read

Honoring his near 15-year tenure as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), the Royal Philharmonic Society had bestowed on Vladimir Jurowski its Gold Medal, whose past recipients include Brahms, Benjamin Britten, Leonard … » Read