BOSTON—The head of MIT’s Media Lab (and Musical America’s 2016 Composer of the Year) has a new opera—a labor of love, not a response to a commission. After a gestation period of some 20 years, Tod Machover’s … » Read

At a press conference in Saint Petersburg last week, Bolshoi Director General Vladimir Urin said that the company would be collaborating with the Metropolitan Opera on three new productions in 2021-2022: Aida, Salome , and Lohengrin . This marks … » Read

Seasoned soloist and chamber musician Grace Park has won the top prize in the 2018 Naumburg Violin Competition, one of the five performers in the finals concerts on November 16 at the 92 nd Street Y Kaufmann Concert hall. She takes home $25,000 … » Read

Joseph Conyers, assistant principal bassist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, wants to “use music to create better people." If they also happen to excel as musicians, that’s all to the better. In 2007 Conyers founded Project 440, a … » Read

G. Schirmer has acquired the worldwide rights to the works of Florence Price. Born to a middle-class family in Little Rock, AR in 1880, Price was the first African-American woman to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra when the … » Read

On Nov. 13 the Solera Quartet completed an unusual residency with a performance on a floating correctional facility just off Hunts Point in the Bronx, NY. For the previous week, the four musicians had helped 20 inmates at the 870-bed Vernon C. … » Read

The Kennedy Center has added a new position: VP and Artistic Director of Social Impact. Starting January 1, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, whom the Center rightly describes as a “multi-hypenate artist” will assume the role, serving as part of … » Read

Canadian violinist Timothy Chooi [pictured] delivered a blazing finale to the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and clinched first prize on Oct. 27 at the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover, Germany. Chooi took home … » Read

The Seattle Symphony has announced the programming for its Octave 9: Raisbeck Music Center, slated to open in March. Named for James and Sherry Raisbeck, their $2 million challenge grant has enabled the transformation of the former Soundbridge … » Read

Mary Caraccioli, Lincoln Center’s chief communications officer, is stepping down to take a similar job with the Central Park Conservancy. She exits this week and plans to be in her new position by early December. Caraccioli was hired three … » Read