Just on the heels of winning Chamber Music America’s highest honor , the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award, the Takács Quartet, in its 50 th -anniversary year, will lose its sole remaining original member, cellist … » Read

Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashin, and Yeesun Kim are among the faculty members for the New England Conservatory’s new Summer Chamber Music Young Artist Program. Running August 8-16, 2026, the tuition-free, nine-day intensive is designed for … » Read

The San Diego Symphony has named an inaugural group of seven conducting fellows for the 2025–26 season. They will receive mentorship from Music and Artistic Director Rafael Payare and work closely with guest conductors and the … » Read

The Lucerne Festival has extended the contract of Music Director Riccardo Chailly through the end of 2028, bringing him to 12 years at the helm. (He succeeded Claudio Abbado in 2016.) While his current contract, through summer 2026, obliged him … » Read

The Raise Your Voice charity is putting the lie to the common perception that for people with dementia, everything is finished. “What our excitement is embedded in,” Hazel Gaydon, the charity’s events manager tells The Guardian … » Read

This year’s Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition has gone to Australian composer Liza Lim for her piece A Sutured World, premiered last October by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO)/Musica Viva. The BRSO, which also recorded the … » Read

The San Antonio Philharmonic, which a bit more than a year ago signed a much- ballyhooed agreement with the Scottish Rite fraternal order to take an ownership stake in its downtown building as a permanent home, was asked to exit the building by … » Read

German conductor Christian Blex ,  winner of the 2025 Karajan Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival, is to be principal guest conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (MSO) for three seasons, starting next September. Blex, … » Read

CHICAGO-- The Perfect Tuba , the latest book by veteran journalist Sam Quinones, is the perfect book for those days when the weight of the world makes it hard to get out of bed. A few years ago, Quinones was feeling that weight. As a reporter for … » Read

A presumably well-intentioned tribute to the late tenor Luciano Pavarotti in Pesaro, a coastal city in the Marche region of Italy where he had a home, has left his widow Nicoletta Mantovani and family members “disappointed, angry and … » Read