The Zurich Festival will see its final iteration this summer, June 5 – 28. The Festival Foundation, founded in 1996 by the city’s four major arts organizations-- the Tonhalle, Schauspielhaus, Kunsthaus, and Zurich Opera—reports … » Read

Among the many individuals and organizations deeply affected by the tragedy of Mariss Jansons’ death on December 1, 2019, were the two leaders of the Salzburg Festival – Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser and President Helga … » Read

Barely two weeks into the New Year, California’s new “ gig work law, ” Assembly Bill 5 has claimed its first victim. After conferring with legal counsel, the Island City Opera has postponed its March 2020 production of Dame … » Read

The Cambridge-based Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) has become the associate ensemble at Venice’s reconstructed Teatro San Cassiano (TSC), said to be the first public opera house when it opened in 1637. Upon completion of the new venue, the … » Read

For only the second time in its history, the Pittsburgh Symphony has hired a principal pops conductor. He is onetime Basie-band trumpeter Byron Stripling, 58. He succeeds Marvin Hamlisch, who died in 2012. In addition to working with Count Basie, … » Read

Ben Cadwallader, executive director of the Vermont Symphony since 2015, is to take the executive helm of The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra starting in March. He succeeds Scott Harrison, who left after four years in the job. Cadwallader's hiring … » Read

The master of music of Westminster Cathedral has resigned, as of December 31, 2019. Martin Baker, in the job nearly 20 years, was not in favor of upcoming changes at the Cathedral Choir School, which is moving from a seven- to a five-day-a- week … » Read

Union musicians counting on their pensions to keep them solvent in their years of retirement are in for some bad news. On Tuesday, the American Federation of Musicians Employers’ Pension Fund—which covers about 50,000 free-lancers, … » Read

A partnership between the San Francisco Ballet School (SFB School) and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) will include movement classes for Conservatory students, music classes for SFB School students, and choreographer-composer … » Read

Cate Haste’s new biography, Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler , profiles a woman whose tempestuous relationships with the avatars of early modernism made her a cultural force in her own right. Born in Vienna in 1879, the daughter … » Read