The 100th season of the Madison Symphony Orchestra continues with a performance of “Ax Plays Mozart” this weekend.

The Curtis Institute of Music is thrilled to announce that it will expand the scope of the school's conducting program, creating a training program designed to provide the most promising young ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laura Jackson is one of several guest conductors this season for the Southwest Florida Symphony. Whatever you do, don’t call the ...

The Cleveland Institute of Music has a new principal conductor and director of orchestral and conducting programs. CIM on Monday, May 10, named Carlos Kalmar to the positions, concluding a three-year ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Conducting an ensemble takes more than a few waves of a baton and a fancy suit — it takes ...

POCATELLO — An ensemble of East Idaho conductors and band directors spent last week developing their conducting and leadership skills through an informational workshop. Led by Conductor and Artistic ...

Despite notions of progress in classical music, the conductor’s podium remains largely a man’s world. According to the latest data, as of 2020, only eight of the world’s top 100 conductors were women.

In fact, for Cincinnati Ballet, it’s “Nutcracker” time for the 51st year. (That’s 52 if you count the 2020 pandemic version, an hourlong TV broadcast.) There are other long-running holiday traditions ...

But when a conductor works with a lesser band where several musicians change every season, where not even a concerted attack can be taken for granted, where the concertmaster fights with the first ...

University of Texas Permian Basin Director of Bands Bryan Braue is seen conducting the Symphonic Winds. He and Assistant Director of Bands Lyndsay Eiben also teach students how to conduct as it is ...

In the classical music world, a new face is always before the public. But where orchestral conductors are concerned, the face usually belongs to a white guy. This is the world that Mei-Ann Chen has ...

Whatever you do, don’t call the conductors “finalists” or their concerts “try-outs.” Southwest Florida Symphony’s search for a new music director is a much less formal process than the last time it ...