The coronavirus pandemic has seen performers becoming stage managers and camera crews, but the singers of UK-based choral foundation VOCES8 went one step further and reinvented themselves as impresarios as well. Running for ten weeks from August … » Read

Since last March, when California first went into lockdown because of the coronavirus, “Keeping Live Music Alive” has been the theme of Mainly Mozart in San Diego. Forced to cancel its annual orchestra festival in June, as well as a … » Read

In the Year 2020, performing artists and the stages on which they were trained to ply their trade have been devastated—financially, artistically, emotionally. Devastated but, in a great many cases, not defeated. If there has been anything … » Read

Professional musicians often have interests beyond their musicmaking, but few can match the timeliness of Mark Almond’s sideline. The 40-year-old Englishman, the San Francisco Symphony’s (SFS) associate principal French horn r since … » Read

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The organizers of an indoor music festival in Barcelona to test the effectiveness of same-day coronavirus screening said Wednesday that preliminary results indicate there was zero transmission inside the venue. The … » Read

Musicians of all stripes in Great Britain have known for well over three years that if Brexit became a reality, their professional lives would suddenly become considerably more difficult. Within days of the June 2016 referendum approving Great … » Read

The 64 th annual conference of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) will take place online from Jan. 8 to 12 amid a global pandemic that has cost the U.S. arts and cultural sector an estimated $14.8 billion in financial losses. … » Read

Fou Ts'ong, the first Chinese pianist to win global acclaim and a revered teacher, died on Dec. 28 of Covid-19 in London. Fou was "a truly great pianist, and our spiritual beacon," said pianist Lang Lang in learning of his passing. Born into a … » Read

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (KSO) and its musicians, as represented by AFM Local 546, have come to an agreement, after a contentious battle that saw the  players filing a grievance in August. Management had furloughed them one month … » Read

We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is … » Read