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A message to faculty from board chair Susan Rothman announced the replacement of the faculty senate with a ‘transitional faculty council’, comprising five teachers and three administrators. This, she pledges, is a step towards shared […]

Catherine Beck has decided to draw a line under her vigorous eight-year chairmanship of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. CEO Mark Williams said: ‘Cathy’s leadership has been remarkable. During her tenure, the Board hired our extraordinary […]

An audience member tells us that after the applause at the end of Rigoletto last night, someone in the audience shouted about the cultural treasure that WNO is and that if we don’t support WNO […]

The former head of BBC Radio and and BrittenPears Arts has been headhunted to be chief executive of the Rothschild Foundation, distributing patronage to the arts. Sir Roger, 68, will take up residence at the […]

The CEO has let it be known that Maria Włoszczowska has joined the orchestra as Leader/Director, sharing the position with Lorenza Borrani. Włoszczowska, 33, is prsently Leader and Artistic Partner of the Royal Northern Sinfonia […]

Met principal trumpet David Krauss returns today to slippedisc.com with his Speaking Soundly series, opening with the American soprano Lisette Oropesa. She discusses, among other things, how she transitioned from playing flute to singing opera, […]

The activist Australian pianist Jayson Gillham, who provoked a crisis at the Melbourne Symphony with an anti-Israel diatribe, has been invited to join the staff of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as Lecturer in Keyboard. […]

The Van Cliburn Competition started a boutique management firm, to be known as the Cliburn Agency. Its initial roster consists of relative unknowns: pianists Greg Anderson, Peter Dugan, Fei-Fei (pictured) and Clayton Stephenson, Anderson & […]

The German-Colombian conductor Anna Handler who starts this month as Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra has just fired her agents at Opus3 and KD Schmid. Handler, 28, has moved instead to Tanja Dorn’s […]

Here’s the puff: Today, BBC Studios, in partnership with luxury watchmaker Rolex, has unveiled ‘Arts in Motion,’ an ambitious editorial program aimed at enriching cultural engagement through masterclasses featuring renowned artists. The series comprises six […]