A program of non-blockbuster 19th-century piano quartets by Suk, Brahms, and Dvorák doesn’t sound like anything to write home about, really. Maybe not much to keep listeners awake, either. But the audience at Sunday’s concert … » Read

Patricia Kiernan Johnson, OPERA America’s director of marketing and communications for the last ten years, is making a swift transition. She leaves the New York-based trade group this week and starts at the Curtis Institute of Music on … » Read

Those fearing for the future of classical music should take heart from the March 2019 launch of Scala Radio, a new digital radio station in the U.K. premised on the belief that the classics can appeal to younger listeners. Research undertaken by … » Read

Danish tenor Sune Hjerrild hopes that Truelinked , an online startup he has developed, will enable vocalists to connect directly to presenters and better manage their own careers. While social media platforms can be useful in some professions, he … » Read

Julia Wolfe is no stranger to the history of industrial relations and its tragedies. Her Steel Hammer (2009) for three sopranos and chamber orchestra examined the often fractious relationship between man and machine through the tale of African … » Read

On Jan. 29 Verdi scholars will gain unfettered access to 5,400 pages of the composer’s papers that have been largely inaccessible to all but a few people for over a century. The cache of documents includes sketches for 12 operas, ranging … » Read

A new French drama that depicts life within a fictional orchestra and whose protagonist is a woman conductor has gone live on French national TV. The six-part series, entitled Philharmonia , launched in Belgium and Switzerland last week, before … » Read

Carl Topilow , now in his 42 nd year as music director of the National Repertory Orchestra, has just signed a three-year contract that will take him through 2022. It is to be his last with the annual Breckenridge, CO, summer festival and youth … » Read

PARIS — Oscar-winning composer and pianist Michel Legrand, whose hits included the score for the '60s romance The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and the song The Windmills of Your Mind and who worked with some of biggest-name artists of the 20th … » Read

Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska is to be the new principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, joining the august team of  Sakari Oramo, chief conductor; Sir Andrew Davis, conductor laureate; and Semyon Bychkov, who holds the … » Read