Shifting entirely online for the first time, the  Sphinx Competition capped its 24th edition last weekend by awarding first prize to Samuel Abraham Vargas Teixeira, a violinist from Caracas, Venezuela. An alumni of El Sistema, the … » Read

Chicago’s Hubbard Street Dance Company has turned to one of its own, former company dancer Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, as its new artistic director. She replaces Glenn Edgerton, in the position since 2009, and takes over on March 1, 2021. … » Read

Stefana Atlas and Samantha Scully, both formerly of Columbia Artists, have formed a new firm, Arabella Arts, with an initial roster of 30 artists. Almost all of them were with that now-defunct powerhouse of classical music management, where Atlas … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra has shelved plans to resume live performances in Severance Hall next month due to the continuing threat of the coronavirus. Among the events cancelled are the April 26 John Williams Conducts program. Now the earliest time … » Read

Ching-Lien Wu, artistic manager of the Chorus of Dutch National Opera since 2014, is to become choirmaster of the Opéra national de Paris as of April 26. The Taipei-born conductor is the first woman to hold the post at the French opera … » Read

TRG Arts (The Results Group for the Arts) has recently released “Arts and Culture Comeback Planning: January 2021,” the latest in its series of studies related to the coronavirus pandemic’s impact, focused in this instance on … » Read

Forced by the pandemic to adapt, the Bayreuth Festival has cobbled together an unconventional season, opening July 25 with a new production of Der Fliegende Holländer by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Oksana Lyniv, the first woman to … » Read

Contemporary chamber music seems to have thrived during the pandemic—at least if recorded output is anything to go by—and here are two of the most interesting. Mirrors is a diverse and strikingly inventive collection of 21st-century … » Read

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s (CSO) February digital schedule offers expanded content on both Experience CSO website and CSOtv to mark Black History Month. Detailed information is available here . Front and center will be two episodes of … » Read

Acclaimed organist John Weaver died on February 1 at age 83. Details were not available from the Curtis Institute, which announced his death, and where he headed the organ department from 1972 to 2003. He joined the Juilliard faculty in the same … » Read