The post that Theodor Kuchar vacated last year at the Fresno Philharmonic has gone to Rei Hotoda, presently assistant conductor with the Utah Symph.

She starts next month.

Also making a summer move is Paul Haas, newly appointed music director of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, in Ontario.

There were tremors in the cowslips when Jeremy Bines won the job as as chorus master for Berlin’s Deutsche Oper. He leaves, after eight years, in September. Not long to find a replacement.

Not to worry. Gly have repatriated an English musician from his exile as interim chorus master at Dutch National Opera.

Nicholas Jenkins is vastly experienced across all forms of English opera and has quite a large portfolio of work on the continent.

The Canadian-US violinist Benjamin Bowman has been named concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra. He will share duties with David Chan, who has held the seat since 2000.

Bowman, 38, is presently concertmaster with American Ballet Theater.

He replaces fellow-Canadian Nikki Chooi, 28, who won the seat last year on a one-year, non-tenure contract. It’s tough out there.