The ten days of the Carl Nielsen Competition’s final rounds, taking place in the Danish composer’s birthplace of Odese, concluded over the weekend with first, second, and third prizes awarded in violin, clarinet, and flute. Johan … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions finals jury has selected five 2019 winners, following performances yesterday afternoon on the Met Stage.  Anthony Roth Costanzo, a 2009 winner (and Musical America 2019 Vocalist of the … » Read

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Southern Californian broadcaster Classical KUSC continue their annual radio broadcast partnership starting in April. The 13 concerts recorded across the orchestra's  2018/19 Centennial … » Read

FORT WORTH—The Cliburn has announced that conductor Marin Alsop will become the first woman to chair the jury for the Sixteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2021. The event will take place from May 28 until June 12 in Fort … » Read

PRINCETON—New Jersey’s Attorney General has thrown several wrenches in the works of Rider University’s controversial attempt to sell Westminster Choir College to a Chinese for-profit company. The opinion comes hot on the heels … » Read

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON—The Bard Music Festival has announced that its 30 th Anniversary Season will explore the life and times of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the onetime Viennese boy wonder who went on to become the musical architect of the … » Read

ST. PAUL—Performance Today has announced that JoAnn Falletta has been named its first-ever Classical Woman of the Year. A three-time Grammy Award-winner with 13 Grammy nominations, Faletta became the first woman to lead a major American … » Read

BOSTON—The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2019/20 season with a plan to celebrate Music Director Andris Nelsons’s fifth anniversary at the orchestra’s helm. Highlights include Jonas Kaufmann returning to … » Read

The Edinburgh International Festival has announced its program for summer 2019, which includes the prestigious European premiere of John Adams’s new piano concerto, Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? The Los Angeles Philharmonic, who … » Read

The San Antonio Symphony (SAS) has announced that Sebastian Lang-Lessing will step down as the company’s music director in 2020 after 10 tumultuous years at the orchestra’s helm. The German conductor, whose international commitments … » Read