Jakub Hruša [pictured] , chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony, has added a third principal guest appointment to his CV. The 39-year-old Czech conductor has been appointed to the role by Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa … » Read

An accordionist entered in this year’s online Ysaÿe International Music Competition, is threatening to sue the competition organizers for spending no more than 22 and 23 seconds viewing two videos he and his partner in “Duo … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stagehands at the Metropolitan Opera returned to work Wednesday after recommending their union ratify a new labor contract negotiated following a lockout that started last year. Local One of the International Alliance of … » Read

Desert In is certainly something different. Comprised of eight 15- to 20-minute episodes, it’s an operatic experiment for the screen born of the pandemic and created at a time when streamable content was all audiences could hope for. And … » Read

Arabella Arts, the artist management firm launched this year by Stefana Atlas and Samantha Scully , both formerly with the now-defunct Columbia Artists, has signed American conductor Leonard Slatkin, bringing the new firm’s roster of … » Read

The Dayton (OH) Performing Arts Alliance (DPAA), formed from the 2012 merger of the Dayton Philharmonic, Dayton Ballet, and Dayton Opera, has a new president and CEO in Patrick J. Nugent. He succeeds interim CEO Patricia McDonald, who took over … » Read

The Office of Arts and Culture in Dallas is seeking new nonprofit management for “Classical 101” WRR Dallas (101.1). While the city “greatly values the classical music broadcasts and arts-organization support that Classical WRR … » Read

The Australia Council for the Arts, working collaboratively with the National Arts Council Singapore, has released In Real Life: Mapping Digital Cultural Engagement in the First Decades of the 21 st Century . The new report analyzes the ways in … » Read

Matthew Loden, CEO of the Toronto Symphony since 2018, is to exit to return to Texas and become dean of Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music as of October 1. He succeeds  Robert Yekovich, who exits after 18 years in the job. … » Read

Georgiana Young is to succeed Lee Bell as senior director of programming for the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, FL, as of August 23. Bell steps down after 24 years and numerous innovations at the Center, … » Read