The 44-year-old will be music director designate in the 2024-25 season and then will have a four-year term.

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The quartet is one of the US’s leading ensembles.

Davis made his Lyric Opera debut in 1987 and led about 700 performances of 62 operas by 22 composers.

The festival, which is dedicated to presenting seldom-performed Italian opera titles, shares a two-program slate in June and July.

Previous recipients have included Karina Canellakis, Roderick Cox, and Gemma New.

The orchestra’s slate of seven concerts will kick off in September with “Three Great American Symphonies.”

Armstrong is the first music director since the unexpected death of Michael Morgan in 2021.

The new music director designate is just 28 years old. He’ll be the youngest in orchestra history when he takes the baton.

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.

“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.”

Plus, the first percussion ensemble to receive this prestigious career grant.

The 600-page collection could mark the biggest discovery of flute repertoire in 25 years.

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.

“I do not share the same goals for the future of the institution as the board of governors does,” Salonen said in a statement.

Plus chamber music and ensemble appearances from renowned Chicago artists.

The season includes 9 programs, including concerts from opera and musical theater royalty.

The respected Israeli luthier is best known for creating the Violins of Hope project, which restores and tours instruments — particularly violins — of Holocaust victims and survivors.

Highlights include rarely-heard gems, beloved holiday concerts, and the 80th birthday celebration of Nicholas Kraemer.

“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.”

“It’s the right time for Bach Week to bid adieu, and on a high note.”

Marian Anderson, an acclaimed and boundary-breaking Black contralto, was born in Philadelphia in 1897.

Glover has led Music of the Baroque since 2002.

Teague-Núñez is the first steelpan soloist to enter — much less win — the competition.

Four contemporary operas have their Met premieres.