The Paris Conservatory—Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP)—has named it first woman director. Émilie Delorme, current director of the Academy at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, is to … » Read

As American conductor David Robertson makes his exit as chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra this month, the orchestra announces that his successor will be native daughter Simone Young, effective in 2022. For the year prior, … » Read

At ten, Yannick Nézet-Séguin decided he wanted to be a conductor when he grew up, a decision from which he never wavered. “I was abnormally intense,” he tells an interviewer from The New York Times . “At that … » Read

Mozart was five when he started composing and for a decade his works were firmly in the style of contemporaries like Johann Christian Bach. At the other end of the spectrum is Erich Wolfgang Korngold whose compositional fingerprints were pretty … » Read

Last week the China Philharmonic performed under an unlikely maestro: Jack Ma, co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a multinational technology conglomerate, and among the richest men in China. The orchestra had been hired by … » Read

Labor strikes over proposed pension changes are crippling Paris, with one in every four high speed trains cancelled, most underground transport at a standstill, and no letup in sight before Christmas. Some 15 performances have been cancelled at … » Read

Anyone skeptical of overnight celebrity should bear in mind that before he was catapulted to fame and fortune in 2018 as “The Royal Wedding Cellist,” Sheku Kanneh-Mason had already become the first black artist to win the 2016 BBC … » Read

Kendra Whitlock Ingram, executive director of the University of Denver’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts since 2016, is to be the new president and CEO of Milwaukee’s Marcus Performing Arts Center. The first woman to hold the … » Read

An increase in donations helped the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) finish the 2019 fiscal year with a $143,000 surplus against a $10.8m annual operating budget. About 63 percent of its income came from individuals, companies, and … » Read

Ambitious building projects in the music world are progressing well in both Cincinnati and San Francisco. Music and Event Management Inc. (MEMI) announced that its 4,500-person capacity venue on the northern bank of the Ohio River in the Queen … » Read