Armenian soprano Marianna Hovanisyan  has joined Intermusica for worldwide general management. An alumna of Jette Parker Artists’ Program at the Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden, she appears there this season as Pamina in  … » Read

Rick Canny [pictured], manager of the Burbank, California-based music management company Favor the Artist, is the new artistic director for The Kennedy Center. His predecessor came and left within two weeks in January. Canny has been a consultant … » Read

British composer Rebecca Saunders is the recipient of the Wihuri Sibelius Prize, a triennial award that is one of  classical music’s most prestigious and lucrative international honors. The 59-year-old composer, who lives in Berlin, … » Read

The Philadelphia Orchestra has added four musicians in the 2026–27 season. Violist Laura Fuller  [left] arrives after nine years as a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. After studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music, she … » Read

Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival’s leadership changes continue, with Nate Bachhuber having just assumed the post of general manager. He joins Orchestral Association President and CEO Anwar Nasir, appointed last June to succeed Paul … » Read

Escaping the taint of a past association with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is not easy, as Leon Botstein, the highly successful ex-president of Bard College, is discovering. When his relationship with Epstein garnered attention, he … » Read

Sir Simon Rattle will stay at the helm of the helm of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) and the Bavarian Radio Chorus through 2033, the result of a five-year contract extension effective in 2028-29. He will have been in the job for ten … » Read

Houston Symphony has four new musicians as of the current season, all of them alumni of Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. In fact, the orchestra reports that over half of its members are Shepherd grads and/or faculty; one of its … » Read

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has announced the addition of two new members as well as the departure of three veteran musicians. In September Jason Yoder [pictured] was named principal percussion. Since 2023 the Pittsburgh native had … » Read

Mark Swed, for three decades the classical music critic for the Los Angeles Times , has retired. His tenure, noted the newspaper’s deputy A1 editor John Penner at a farewell luncheon, “coincided with this city’s Golden Age of … » Read