Dorn Music has signed 21-year-old Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski for worldwide general management. Peltokoski began his studies with famed pedagogue Jorma Panula at the age of 14. He is currently studying with Sakari Oramo at the Sibelius … » Read

The American Ballet Theater (ABT) and Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, CA. have announced a three-year partnership that will include annual productions of Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker as well as several world and West … » Read

Alberto W. Vilar, whose record-setting largesse proved chimerical, died on Sept. 4 at age 80. A money manager who built a nearly $1 bn fortune through Amerindo Investment Advisors by focusing on biotechnology and technology stock, Vilar gave or … » Read

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