The Cincinnati May Festival has extended the contract of Juanjo Mena [pictured], who began his term as principal conductor just one season ago. He will now remain at the helm into the Festival’s 150 th anniversary season, in 2023. The 2019 … » Read

Next week, the New Jersey Attorney General is scheduled to complete his investigation of the attempted sale by Rider University of Westminster Choir College (WCC) to a Chinese manufacturing firm recently in the education business. Once the … » Read

For the second time in as many days, a Manhattan recital turned into a memorial. Following Anne-Sophie Mutter’s Carnegie Hall concert that concluded as a moving tribute to her late husband André Previn, so the March 13 traversal … » Read

As he prepares for his final appearance in Boston as music director of the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) later this month, Michael Tilson Thomas is quick to correct an interviewer who labels him the soon-to-be conductor emeritus of the ensemble he … » Read

Keith C. Elder is to succeed the retiring Ron Predl as executive director of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra (TSO), effective August 5. Elder, who has a BA in music and arts administration from Indiana University (concentrations in tuba and … » Read

The 12th edition of the Grumiaux International Competition for Young Violinists concluded on March 10 in Brussels, Belgium, with prizes awarded in four age ranges. Category A, for those under 10, went to seven-year-old Himari Yoshimura of Japan … » Read

Hearts must have gone out to Anne-Sophie Mutter at her Carnegie Hall recital on March 12. The first half of her program had a distinctly spectral theme, designed to culminate in the world premiere of Rhode Island-born composer Sebastian … » Read

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG), founded in 1987 by members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, has a new executive director in Seb Huckle, its former marketing manager. He’ll report to Artistic Director Stephan Meier, … » Read

This year’s annual Avery Fisher Career Grants of $25,000 each—not to be confused with the prestigious Avery Fisher Award of $100,000, granted last October to violinist Leila Josefowicz —will go to four artists deemed to … » Read

Bernard Haitink, who turns 90 this month and plans a well-earned sabbatical at the end of the season, has been voted honorary membership in the Vienna Philharmonic by the members of the orchestra. He'll be presented with the award by Philharmonic … » Read