Canadian virtuoso Angela Hewitt lost her “best friend” when her one-of-a-kind F278 Fazioli piano was dropped by movers. “I hope my piano will be happy in piano heaven,” she says, describing the handmade instrument as … » Read

The director of a French ballet has been sacked for getting rid of a dancer after she had a baby, the French culture ministry confirmed Friday. Unions had called for Greek-born Yorgos Loukos to go after he lost his appeal over discrimination … » Read

Sweden’s annual Polar Music Prize, worth one million Swedish Kronor (US $110,000) for each recipient, this year goes to soprano Anna Netrebko and pop songwriter Diane Warren. Founded in 1989 and derived from an endowment left by the late … » Read

LOS ANGELES – Even for an organization that routinely shoots for the new and unusual, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2017 Reykjavik Festival was really out there, a gamble that music from remote Iceland would find an audience in … » Read

Carlos Kalmar will step down as music director of the Oregon Symphony at the end of the 2020-21 season. He will have been in the job 18 years and is credited with bringing the orchestra to a higher artistic standard than when he arrived. He … » Read

Caroline Shaw won the Pulitzer Prize in Music Composition in 2013, the youngest person to do so. The winning work, Partita, written for the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, of which she is a member, displays a plethora of musical styles, ranging … » Read

On Sunday night Hildur Gudnadóttir won an Oscar for best score, for Todd Phillips’ Oscar-nominated film Joker . The Icelandic composer had already won the Golden Globe, Critic’s Circle, and BAFTA awards for the work. … » Read

Plans announced by Radio New Zealand (RNZ) to move Concert —its signature classical music program—to an AM frequency and downgrade its content has stirred up a hornet’s nest of protest. Opera legend Dame Kiri Te Kanawa labelled … » Read

Come July 10, the San Diego Symphony will have a new summer outdoor concert venue—the $45m Shell located on the bayfront in the downtown Embarcadero Marina Park South. The new facility includes a 13,015-sq.-ft. outdoor stage covered by a … » Read

The Hong Kong Arts Festival , one of the events in which the Boston Symphony Orchestra was scheduled to perform before calling off its tour of East Asia, has finally announced its cancellation, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. Still … » Read