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At the Takács, Changing of the Guard

Just on the heels of winning Chamber Music America’s highest honor , the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award, the Takács Quartet, in its 50 th -anniversary year, will lose its … »Read

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NEC to Launch Free Summer Chamber Music Program

Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashin, and Yeesun Kim are among the faculty members for the New England Conservatory’s new Summer Chamber Music Young Artist Program. Running August 8-16, 2026, the … »Read

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San Diego Taps Conducting Fellows

The San Diego Symphony has named an inaugural group of seven conducting fellows for the 2025–26 season. They will receive mentorship from Music and Artistic Director Rafael Payare and work … »Read

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Contract Renewals: Lucerne, Vienna

The Lucerne Festival has extended the contract of Music Director Riccardo Chailly through the end of 2028, bringing him to 12 years at the helm. (He succeeded Claudio Abbado in 2016.) While his … »Read

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Revelations: Dementia Patients as Composers

The Raise Your Voice charity is putting the lie to the common perception that for people with dementia, everything is finished. “What our excitement is embedded in,” Hazel Gaydon, the … »Read

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Australian Composer Wins Grawemeyer

This year’s Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition has gone to Australian composer Liza Lim for her piece A Sutured World, premiered last October by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra … »Read

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San Antonio Phil Gets Eviction Notice

The San Antonio Philharmonic, which a bit more than a year ago signed a much- ballyhooed agreement with the Scottish Rite fraternal order to take an ownership stake in its downtown building as a … »Read

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New Conductors in Malmö & Edmonton

German conductor Christian Blex ,  winner of the 2025 Karajan Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival, is to be principal guest conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (MSO) … »Read

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The Biggest Bell in the Band

CHICAGO-- The Perfect Tuba , the latest book by veteran journalist Sam Quinones, is the perfect book for those days when the weight of the world makes it hard to get out of bed. A few years ago, … »Read

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Pavarotti Gets Iced-in

A presumably well-intentioned tribute to the late tenor Luciano Pavarotti in Pesaro, a coastal city in the Marche region of Italy where he had a home, has left his widow Nicoletta Mantovani and … »Read

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Each month, Musical America spotlights an important emerging talent. If you haven't heard of the New Artist of the Month before, we predict you will soon.


Iván López Reynoso, conductor
New Artist of the Month
December 2025
Hongni Wu, mezzo-soprano
New Artist of the Month
November 2025
Emma Wernig, viola
New Artist of the Month
October 2025
Cadie J. Bryan, soprano
New Artist of the Month
September 2025
Wendy Waszut-Barrett, designer
New Artist of the Month
August 2025
Oliver Talukder, oboist
New Artist of the Month
July 2025
Katharina Wincor, conductor
New Artist of the Month
June 2025
Catharine Woodward, soprano
New Artist of the Month
May 2025
Abigail Raiford, soprano
New Artist of the Month
April 2025
Ashley Jackson, harpist
New Artist of the Month
March 2025
Kari Watson, composer
New Artist of the Month
February 2025
Gabriela Lara, violinist
New Artist of the Month
January 2025
Madeline Apple Healey, soprano
New Artist of the Month
December 2024

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