The drip, drip, drip of bad news emanating from the San Antonio Philharmonic became a flood on Feb. 16 when an email to the musicians from CEO Roberto Treviño announced, “As part of the broader reconfiguration of our season, we will … » Read

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has hired Nikolai Song, 24, acting principal flute of Switzerland’s Berner Symphony Orchestra, as its principal with immediate effect. He succeeds Lorna McGhee who left last June to take the same job … » Read

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) 2026/27 season marks its 147 th and Stéphane Denève’s ninth as music director. This will be the orchestra’s second year in the renovated Powell Hall at the new Jack C. Taylor Music … » Read

The Carmel Bach Festival (CBF) has unveiled its 89th summer season, running July 11-25 in a number of venues in and around Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA. “Our theme, the nature of sound, invites us to listen more deeply,” said CBF Artistic … » Read

Barry Mitchell, a 1982 graduate from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Cincinnati (UC), has gifted $3 million to the UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) to endow a faculty chair and scholarships. … » Read

Hilary Hahn, who recently returned to the concert hall in robust health, was to have performed with cellist Seth Parker Woods the premiere of Carlos Simon’s Double Concerto Suite with the National Symphony Orchestra March 12-14 at Kennedy … » Read

Civic leaders joined Atlanta Opera General Artistic Director Tomer Zvulun and others yesterday for the official groundbreaking of the Molly Blank Center for Opera and the Arts, the company’s planned facility for rehearsal, education, … » Read

CHICAGO—Upon entering Orchestra Hall on February 10, audience members were handed something in addition to the evening’s program: a pencil. That was the first hint that Emily — No Prisoner Be wasn’t going to be “your … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Pene Pati was cautioned as a 20-year-old not to pursue a singing career , an unusual occupation for a Samoan who grew up in New Zealand “Lots of people want to become a singer because they want the lifestyle,” … » Read

The Great Wave , an opera by composer Dai Fujikura and librettist Harry Ross, presents a series of vignettes from the life and death of the artist Katsushika Hokusai, best known for the iconic print that gives the composition its name. Premiered … » Read