The trailblazing conductor Marin Alsop will chair the jury for the inaugural Cliburn International Competition for Conductors ...

After a 33-year tenure, Diane Wittry will step down as music director and conductor for the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. Wittry will conduct her final concert during fall 2027 but will remain as ...

An exploration of the orchestra conductor role history and artistic power behind shaping live symphonic music.

CIM announced that acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin has been selected to receive its 2026 Honorary Doctor of Musical Arts (HDMA) degree. Learn more here!

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World-renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa who was music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 3 decades, has died at 88. Ozawa died of heart failure at his home in Tokyo on February 6, his ...

The Hollywood Bowl was packed Sunday night, as it had reportedly been Friday and Saturday, for the first time that John Williams and Gustavo Dudamel shared a program in the amphitheater. Many in the ...

Sir Andrew Davis, the widely beloved music director and principal conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago for some 21 years and one of the great operatic figures of his generation, died Saturday of ...

Prince Ali is coming into town and bringing his finest performers, singers, dancers, and all (not sure about the 75 golden camels or 53 purple peacocks though). While Aladdin sings and dances his way ...

Semyon Bychkov will succeed Gustavo Dudamel as music director of the Paris Opera starting in August 2028, the company’s general director Alexander Neef said Tuesday. The 73-year-old Bychkov agreed to ...