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Updated Oct 30, 2024

Limor Tomer Exits Met Live Arts for California Job

Limor Tomer, general manager of Live Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the last 13 years, is to be the new VP of programming and production at Orange County’s Segerstrom Center for … »Read

New Orchestra Execs: MD and ME

Remember that “Unusual Hire in Annapolis” who took over as CEO of the city’s symphony orchestra last April? Well, it turns out that a former neurosurgeon and university president … »Read

Why Il Trovatore's Bad Rap Is Undeserved

Il trovatore ’s dramaturgy has long drawn condescension. The Marx Brothers famously used Verdi’s opera to mock the entire genre; a recent article on the website Parterre Box decried … »Read

Carl St. Clair on His 30-plus Years

Carl St. Clair, who joined the Pacific Symphony in 1990 (and coyly suggests this will be his last year as music director ), can now lay claim to being the longest-tenured American-born conductor … »Read

Celebrated Orchestra Chief Moves On and Up

Blake-Anthony Johnson, who has brought the Chicago Sinfonietta to national prominence during his five years as president and CEO, is stepping down to be CEO of the 50-year-old New Orleans Jazz and … »Read

Cinci May Fest Announces 2025 Season & Its Director

The Cincinnati May Festival, in its second year of a new business model that appoints a new director every season, has announced Renée Fleming for that position as of its next edition, the … »Read

A Rare Recital by a Rare Voice

Appearances by Lisette Oropesa since the pandemic have been all too rare in New York, the city that once could have been considered her artistic home. By contrast, in Europe she recently has gone … »Read

San Diego Opera's Very Ambitious Five-year Plan

What a difference a decade can make. In 2014 the San Diego Opera (SDO) underwent a near-death experience . On Nov. 1, SDO will open its 60 th season with La bohème , the opera that … »Read

Announcing a New Orchestra with No Musicians

In a number of Depression-era films, Mickey Rooney encourages Judy Garland with, “Hey kids, let’s put on a show!” Having announced with considerable fanfare that he has founded … »Read

Met Settles Stage-injury Lawsuit

More than a decade after a 2011 accident in which she was injured in a fall from a platform at the Metropolitan Opera, mezzo-soprano Wendy White and the company have reached an agreement on the … »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.


Liza Malamut, trombonist
New Artist of the Month
October 2024
Nancy Ives, composer
New Artist of the Month
September 2024
Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor
New Artist of the Month
August 2024
Edmund Danon, baritone
New Artist of the Month
July 2024
Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
New Artist of the Month
June 2024
Ian Niederhoffer, conductor
New Artist of the Month
May 2024
~Nois Saxophone Quartet
New Artists of the Month
April 2024
Sarah Saviet, violinist
New Artist of the Month
March 2024
Sarah Dufresne, soprano
New Artist of the Month
February 2024
Ben Goldscheider, horn player
New Artist of the Month
January 2024
William Thomas, bass
New Artist of the Month
December 2023
Jonas Frølund, clarinetist
New Artist of the Month
November 2023
Stephanie Childress, conductor
New Artist of the Month
October 2023
Lee Reynolds, conductor
New Artist of the Month
September 2023

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