How is the classical music world changing? Looking back on a dizzying year, we pay particular attention to performers’ ...

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

John Eliot Gardiner, a renowned classical music conductor who has led some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, said Thursday he was pulling out of all of his remaining 2023 engagements, days ...

Why do we focus on the bad news stories about cuts and crises in classical music ? Musicians are doing incredible things to engage, support and sustain us; we should tell those stories too ...

FARGO - As far as maestros go, Darryl One walks to the beat of a different drummer. While many conductors have a history in musical performance or at least studied classical music from a young age, ...

When you hear the word “conductor,” what—or who—do you picture? “It’s probably an older white man who looks very serious,” jokes Kevin Fitzgerald, the 32-year-old who is currently the Associate ...

Seiji Ozawa, who has died aged 88, was one of the few Japanese musicians to make a significant mark in the Western classical music tradition. He crossed the East-West divide with remarkable ease, ...

Under the baton of guest conductor David Eric Robertson, who is Director of Conducting Studies at New York’s Juilliard School ...