The 44-year-old will be music director designate in the 2024-25 season and then will have a four-year term.
Cristian Măcelaru to become music director of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 2025-26
Conductor Andrew Davis, who headed Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on 3 continents, dies
Davis made his Lyric Opera debut in 1987 and led about 700 performances of 62 operas by 22 composers.
Brain scans of Philly jazz musicians reveal secrets to reaching creative flow
Jazz improvisation is a favorite vehicle for studies — it is a measurable real-world task that allows for divergent thinking.
Italy marks 80th anniversary of WWII-era massacre in Rome with a concert honoring the dead
Riccardo Muti conducted the Italian premiere of William Schuman’s Ninth Symphony, which the composer wrote after visiting the site of a 1944 massacre in Rome.
Acclaimed Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini dies at age 82
“I grew up in a house with art and artists,” Pollini said in an interview. “Old works and modern works coexisted together as part of life.”
In one Ukrainian city, ballet in a bomb shelter is an escape from the horrors of war
Practicing in a bomb shelter means the girls can keeping dancing through the almost hourly air raid alerts.
Metropolitan Opera presents semi-staged ‘Turandot’ after stage malfunction
Franco Zeffirelli’s staging premiered in 1987 and is among the most lavish sets in Met history, recreating an imperial throne room with 199 people on stage.
Byron Janis, renowned American classical pianist who overcame debilitating arthritis, dies at 95
In 1960, Janis was selected as the first musician to tour the then-USSR as part of a cultural exchange program organized by the U.S. State Department.
Esa-Pekka Salonen to leave San Francisco Symphony, citing dispute with orchestra’s board
“I do not share the same goals for the future of the institution as the board of governors does,” Salonen said in a statement.
Chopin lovers can’t meet their hero, but this pianist got to do the next best thing
“These period pianos, they all have the ability to play as soft as possible and I think still there’s something there, there is still a core inside.”