This year marks the 50 th anniversary of Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center, a cultural campus modeled on Lincoln Center that serves as landlord and administrative overseer of the High Museum of Art, Alliance Theater, and Atlanta Symphony … » Read

The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, which self-defines as “Canada’s leading post graduate arts and leadership training institute,” has appointed the  Gryphon Trio to direct its classical music summer programs as of … » Read

The Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, based in Kalamazoo, MI, has announced that it will be collaborating with the Grand Rapids Symphony (GRS) on its “The Pianist” series of internationally known artists. The first in … » Read

In what promises to be an unusual production, by Los Angeles-based enfant terrible Yuval Sharon, Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra will take over the new Die Zauberflöte at Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden, opening February 17. The … » Read

PARIS—What does Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov have against the French? First Bizet, now Berlioz… Gallic composers inspire him to put their leading characters into analysis. A year on from his hotel-lobby Carmen in … » Read

Lee Mills [pictured], resident conductor of the Brazilian Symphony and recipient of two Solti Foundation career grants, is to be associate conductor of the Seattle Symphony starting in 2019-20, also Thomas Dausgaard’s first season as music … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—Cellist Evan Kahn’s career trajectory is rare for a recent music school graduate, but then so is his talent. He earned his master’s degree in chamber music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music just last … » Read

The trustees of Marlboro Music and Marlboro College have reached an agreement to continue and strengthen a relationship begun in 1951 for another 99 years. A key component of the new agreement between the world-renowned summer classical music … » Read

Baritone Sanford Sylvan died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. His death was confirmed to NPR by his mother Leonore Sylvan, sister Gwen Sylvan, and brother Seth Sylvan. He was 65 and died, suddenly, of what his family has said were “natural … » Read

PARIS (AP) — Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit, who has faced multiple accusations of sexual assault, will conduct a concert for the National Orchestra of France on Sunday, his highest profile performance since the allegations were first … » Read