Dutch composer Joel Bons has won the 2019 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, the University announced today. Bons’s one-hour Nomaden , for cello and mixed ensemble, was named as the winning piece. The award, … » Read

“I couldn’t have imagined a better job for myself right now,” said conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya. “It’s always amazing when a job lines up at exactly the right time with your personal interests, your professional … » Read

The Cincinnati Opera (CO) is losing one its mainstays. After 17 years Marcus Küchle, director of artistic operations and new work development, is leaving this month to assume a top administrative role in the Tyrolean Festival Erl. The fest, … » Read

The final outcome of the ongoing Westminster Choir College-for-sale-to-China debate is anybody’s guess, but NPR provides a fairly comprehensive description of the predicament and the players. The story so far is that Rider University, which … » Read

Violinist Nina Beilina, who emigrated from the Soviet Union at age 40, in 1977, and made her U.S. debut a year later at Manhattan’s 92 nd Street Y, died on November 25 in New York. She was 81. Harold Schonberg’s positive review in The … » Read

NAPLES, Italy—Riccardo Muti has generally steered clear of staged opera in recent years, preferring to showcase his Verdi in concert, a format perfected in Chicago and last summer in Florence and Ravenna, Italy, with Macbeth . But that … » Read

Violinist/conductor Nikolaj Znaider further solidifies his podium credentials with news that he is to be the next music director of the Orchester National de Lyon (ONL), succeeding Leonard Slatkin, who left in 2017. Coincidentally, the news … » Read

The Nov. 28 auction of items from the private collection of Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya has produced a bonanza for the couple’s two daughters, Olga and Elena Rostropovich. Sotheby’s London auction house reported … » Read

For three nights in early December, the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, located on 9 th Avenue in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, will host Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors . First produced for television in 1951, the … » Read

About one year ago, news arrived that Ramón Ortega, then principal oboe of Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under its Principal Conductor Mariss Jansons, would be moving to the same position with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, starting in … » Read