UCLA’s emerging Herb Alpert School of Music has named Eileen Strempel as its inaugural dean. A voice professor at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of

The US-Israeli conductor Steven Sloane is to be the next music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, starting mid-2020. He succeeds the Frenchman Fréderic Chaslin. Sloane,

When China announced a world-record $150,000 piano prize last month, concerns were raised that members of the jury, chaired by Juilliard’s Yoheved Kaplinsky, might favour

The soloist in the world premiere of John Adams’s piano concert next month will be Yuja Wang. The concerto is titled Must the Devil Have All

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider said today that the 2019 Carl Nielsen International Competition will offer ‘a platform and transparency.’ He is so keen for it to be clean

There’s an almost even gender split among the 24 contestants – 13 women, 11 men. The youngest is 17, the oldest 29. Tomer Amrani (24,

They showed a 20-second snatch last night of an upcoming documentary on the great tenor. Some desiccated pop star in the middle tells us ‘the

The death has been announced of Andrew J. McMullan Jr. music director and general director of Maine Opera . Before that he was principal horn of

The Metropolitan Opera will announce its season very shortly. One of the highlights to leak our way is the Met debut of the Lithuanian soprano

You never see the classical Grammys on TV. In a good year, they turn up at the back of the LA Times website, among the