Teng Li [pictured], principal violist of the Toronto Symphony since 2004, is now official with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, having won the audition several months ago. A member of the Rosamunde Quartet (with Noah Bendix-Balgleyof the Berlin … » Read

The promise of stability for the struggling San Antonio Symphony (SAS) rests with doing more, not less, argues the ensemble’s  new interim Executive Director Michael Kaiser. Working with a nine-member city-county task force, the … » Read

For every soloist with an international reputation who receives as much as $50,000 a performance, there are hundreds of superbly trained classical musicians who are lucky to make that amount in a year of concertizing. The Toronto branch of the … » Read

John Walz, principal cellist of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, has put out an alert regarding the theft of his cello from his hotel room. ABC News is reporting the instrument’s worth at $100,000. Walz says it was made for him by Mario … » Read

Last spring Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, eloquently limned the interconnections between philanthropy and the arts. Speaking at “The Power of Giving: Philanthropy’s Impact on American Life,” an annual … » Read

Stephen Langridge, artistic director opera/drama at the Gothenburg Opera for the last five years, is to take the new position of artistic director at Glyndebourne, leaving Gothenburg in late spring 2019 to return his homeland. In the new post, … » Read