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Updated Aug 25, 2025

Emerging Black Composers Project Perseveres

The Emerging Black Composers Project (EBCP), launched in 2020 as a collaboration between the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) and the San Francisco Symphony, lost momentum … »Read

Teddy Re-ups in Louisville

The Louisville Orchestra has extended Teddy Abrams’s tenure as music director for three years, through the 2027-28 season. He joined the ensemble as music director designate in 2013. … »Read

Kiril Petrenko Wins Sonning Prize

Kirill Petrenko, chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, will receive the 2026 Léonie Sonning Music Prize, Denmark’s largest music prize, at a gala concert in the Copenhagen … »Read

New Exec Director for PCO

The Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1990 as the first professional chamber ensemble in middle PA, has a new executive director. She is Caitlin Martinkus, professor of music theory at … »Read

Industry News

KenCen Fires Dance Team

The dance programming team at the Kennedy Center under Trump’s control has been fired. One of its members had been at the helm of the effort to unionize employees at the beleaguered … »Read

People in the News

Surprising Appointment(s) at the Hong Kong Phil

Austrian businessman Bernhard Fleischer, founder and owner of Bernard Fleischer Moving Images (BFMI), is to be the next CEO of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. BFMI has recorded hundreds of … »Read

Reviews

A Rare Evening at the Proms: The Delius Mass

LONDON—Frederick Delius’s A Mass of Life is his longest, most ambitious concert work. For many, it is also his magnum opus, exploring over 100 minutes cosmic ideas of humanity, … »Read

People in the News

Music Faculty Additions to UNCSA

University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has 25 new faculty members arriving for the 2025–26 school year, including 12 full-time and 13 adjunct and visiting, in the Schools of … »Read

Industry News

Free Chamber Concerts on the Farm

Calby Van Hollebeke, a Master of Arts candidate at Washington State University’s (WSU) School of Music, grew up on a farm and is very aware of the hard work that goes into the annual … »Read

Industry News

Ukrainian Freedom O Returns to the UK

As the war between Russia and Ukraine grinds on, Keri-Lynn Wilson and the members of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra (UFO), which she organized in the spring of 2022, admit that their project may … »Read

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HONORS & AWARDS

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.

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

Sterling Elliott, cellist
New Artist of the Month
November 2024

Liza Malamut, trombonist
New Artist of the Month
October 2024

Nancy Ives, composer
New Artist of the Month
September 2024

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Since 1960, each year Musical America honors several outstanding musicians with an award for excellence.
»View the Musical America award winners

1.	Surprising Appointment(s) at the Hong Kong Phil
2.	KenCen Fires Dance Team
3.	Foundations Race to Rescue Public Media
4.	American Brass Quintet Names New Trumpet
5.	Small Opera Company, Big Agenda
6.	A Rare Evening at the Proms: The Delius Mass
7.	Music Faculty Additions to UNCSA
8.	Recent Strings, Coming & Going
9.	Restricted U.S. Timber Harvesting Threatens Steinway
10.	Free Chamber Concerts on the Farm