After a six-month search, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) found its new president and CEO within its own ranks, elevating Angela Elster from VP of the VSO School of Music & Community Programs to the post left vacant when Kelly … » Read

For the past six months, abrupt venue closings during Hong Kong’s antigovernment protests have become a frequent part of local concert life. But yesterday’s decisive reaction to China’s coronavirus has now removed some of the … » Read

Siegwald Bütow [pictured], managing director of Germany’s WDR Symphony Orchestra, has been appointed to the same post at the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, effective next summer for a period of five years. Bütow, 51, succeeds … » Read

Bob Shane, the last surviving founding member of the Kingston Trio, which is credited with sparking the folk music movement in the 1950s and 60s, died on Sunday in Phoenix, AZ, in a hospice facility. He was 85. His death was confirmed by his … » Read

For the first time in the history of the televised Academy Awards, a woman will conduct the orchestra. Eimear Noone, an Irish composer and conductor, is to lead excerpts from the five nominated scores at the February 9 ceremonies; Musical … » Read

The Oregon Bach Festival will celebrate its golden anniversary next summer by auditioning three “world-class conductors” for the position of artistic director. The post has been empty since 2017 when Matthew Halls was fired after two … » Read

Tuomas Hiltunen has resigned as general director of the Fort Worth Opera. Hiltunen has been in the job for two years , having succeeded Darren K. Woods, who was fired in February 2017 . The reason, he tells Theater Jones , is "because of … » Read

The winners of the 2020 Classical Grammy Awards, announced Sunday, are a mixed bag. The good news is that most of the composers represented, regardless of the category, are LIVING composers. Looks like, among new recordings anyway, the warhorses … » Read

With the chairman of the board acknowledging in his statement that the company has been going through “an enormously challenging time,” referring no doubt to the events surrounding General Director Placido Domingo’s exit, the … » Read

The strike, for now, appears to be over at the Opéra de Paris. Just a few hours before the doors opened Saturday night, a union announcement made it official and the curtain rose on schedule for Tales of Hoffmann at Opéra Bastille. … » Read