2022-23 marks the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 132nd season, its final year under the baton of music director Riccardo Muti, and the 25th anniversary of Symphony Center’s opening. Read more here.
For the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Philharmonic traveled abroad, playing three concerts at Germany's Usedom Music Festival in a location where Nazi weapons of terror were built. Read more here.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has announced details for their inaugural neighborhood concert series. These free outdoor performances will take place throughout the summer across Greater Cincinnati. Read more here.
The Hawai'i Symphony Orchestra launches a new, three-week concert series at the Waikiki Shell, running May 25th to June 12th. Read more here.
Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony continue to produce concerts to keep classical music present in their community. Read more here.
The Dallas Symphony will perform and record Wagner’s Ring Cycle in 2024. Read more here.
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra announces their 2022 summer season. Read more here.
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra honors six retiring musicians who share a combined 231 years of playing for the SLSO. Read more here.
Musicians of the Nashville Symphony share stories from four of their members who had spent 40+ years performing for Nashville audiences. Read more here.
The Minnesota Orchestra honors Osmo Vänskä as Conductor Laureate. Read more here.
The Arison Arts Foundation has awarded a $30 million endowment gift to the New World Symphony in commemoration of Michael Tilson Thomas’ achievements and dedication to the symphony. Click here for more.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic will present a Power to the People! Festival to explore the intersections of music and social justice, May 29th to June 10th. Read more here.
San Francisco Opera opens its 2022 summer season June 4th at the War Memorial Opera House. Read more here.
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra canceled its concerts last weekend due to multiple COVID breakthrough cases among orchestra musicians. Read more here.
San Antonio Symphony Musicians call off federal mediation with the Symphony Society of San Antonio. Read more here.
The Florida Orchestra announces the 2022-23 concerts for their 55th season. Read more here.
The San Diego Symphony will perform 31 concerts at six venues for its 2022-23 Jacobs Masterworks season as the $125 million renovation of the orchestra’s Jacobs Music Center and Copley Symphony Hall heads toward its completion next year. Read more here.
Spurred by George Floyd's death, the Minnesota Orchestra has commissioned a new work by Black artists which will premiere next spring. Read more here.
What will it take to secure the future of the San Antonio Symphony? Daniel Beckley, executive director of the Kansas City Symphony, encourages San Antonio to continue to push to save the San Antonio Symphony: Symphonies are economic drivers for cities as companies look for strong support for the arts in communities. Read more here.
For 2022-23, the Minnesota Orchestra itself will be the star for their first season in years without Osmo Vänskä. Read more here.
The Metropolitan Opera is organizing a US tour by the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra this summer, using music to oppose the Russian invasion. Read more here.
Click here to read how the anguish of war permeates the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2022-23 season.
Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra’s benefit concert raises $48,000 to support Ukrainian refugees. Read more here.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's 2022-23 season has been announced. Read more here.
The Met Orchestra makes a major donation to the National Opera of Ukraine Orchestra. Read more here.
The Louisville Orchestra has announced its 2022-23 season schedule. Read more here.
More than 30 members of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra tested positive for COVID-19 following a recent performance in Boston. Read more here.
This month the Oregon Symphony celebrated its 125th anniversary with a gala event that raised over $1.5 million. Read more here.
Symphoria musicians will perform a benefit concert on April 23rd for Ukrainian refugees coming to Syracuse. Read more here.
New York City Ballet plans an ambitious 2022-23 season. Read more here.
The Columbus Symphony announces its 2022 Picnic With the Pops lineup. Read more here.
Click here to read about the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s GEN X Festival, which begins April 22nd.
The Boston Symphony cancels its European tour over virus concerns. Read more here.
The Colorado Symphony has announced its 2022-23 season, the first led by new principal conductor Peter Oundjian. Read more here.
Alabama Symphony Orchestra will present a special three-day celebration, A Century in Symphony, to mark their centennial on Memorial Day weekend. Read more here.
Back in full in 2022-23, the Philadelphia Orchestra announces its season with an eye on social change. Read more here.
The Cleveland Orchestra embraces diversity on their wide-ranging 2022-23 Severance season. Read more here.
On April 9th, the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra will present a benefit concert in support of Ukraine, featuring music by Ukrainian composers. Read more here.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has announced the schedule for this summer’s Symphony on the Prairie, a 40-plus-year tradition. Read more here.
The 2022-23 season of the Washington National Opera will include five full productions. Read more here.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra appoints Mark C. Hanson as its next President and CEO. Read more here.
San Diego Symphony received a combined $2 million in gifts from local philanthropists, bringing the symphony’s $125 million fundraising campaign close to completion. Read more here.
San Francisco Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen announce a lively, diverse season for 2022-23. Read more here.
The Louisville Orchestra will receive $4.3 million to resume an annual statewide touring program, allowing the orchestra to visit every region of the commonwealth over two years. Read more here.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is raising money for the people of war-torn Ukraine with a concert on April 21st in Joseph Myerhoff Symphony Hall. The hall’s namesake emigrated from Ukraine to Baltimore as a young child and later gifted the venue. Read more here.
The Nashville Symphony announced its 2022-23 season, featuring nearly 100 performances and several world premieres, commissions, and recording projects. Read more here.
Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony stand in solidarity as their strike enters its sixth month. Read more here.
Utah Symphony’s 2022-23 season will be the final one for their music director Thierry Fischer. Read more here.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and United Way partner to help Ukraine with a Concert of Peace April 2nd. Read more here.
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra will be holding Ukraine benefit concert April 3rd. Read more here.
The New York Philharmonic announces its 2022-23 season, a celebratory slate of about 150 concerts to inaugurate Geffen Hall, its renovated home. Read more here.
Charlotte Symphony announces the 2022-23 season, with special attention to their guest conductors. Read more here.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra announces the 2022-23 season, its first with Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann. Read more here.
ICSOM will celebrate its 60th anniversary at the 2022 ICSOM Conference from August 24–27, 2022 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Click here for more details.
Ukraine’s national anthem reverberates around the world. Read more here.
Click here to read about the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s plan for a $100 million renovation and expansion of Powell Hall.
The Grand Rapids Symphony has released its lineup for the 2022-23 concert season. Read more here.
The New York Philharmonic announces their residency at Germany’s Usedom Music Festival this spring. Read more here.
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra announces its 2022-23 season. Read more here.
Click here to read about the MET Opera’s concert to benefit relief efforts for Ukraine.
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra's benefit concert for Ukraine raises $58,000, which will go directly for medical supplies, humanitarian aid, and rehabilitation equipment. Read more here.
The New Jersey Symphony announces its 2022–23 centennial season and extends Xian Zhang’s Music Director contract through 2027–28. Read more here.
The Oregon Symphony announces their 2022-23 season. Read more here.
San Diego Symphony announces the 2022 summer season at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. Read more here.
On March 14th the Metropolitan Opera is staging a concert in support of Ukraine to show solidarity with Ukrainians under attack, which will be broadcast on radio stations around the world. Read more here.
The New York Philharmonic will open the newly-renovated David Geffen Hall two years ahead of schedule. Read more here.
The Charlotte Symphony excavates its past and has big plans for their 90th anniversary. Read more here.
Utah Symphony announces their summer 2022 Deer Valley Music Festival season. Read more here.
Leading Russian musicians sign an appeal condemning the invasion of Ukraine. Read more here.
Community members worked together to provide an opportunity for the San Antonio Symphony musicians to perform for the first time since the strike began in September 2021. Read more here.
The Kansas City Symphony announces its 2022-23 season. Read more here.
Click here to read how several Russian and Ukrainian artists are voicing their support for Ukraine and asking for peace.
The Louisville Orchestra will highlight the sounds and cultures of Central and South America with its Festival of Latin American Music, from March 4 to 26. Read more here.
Once a lavish cinema owned by Warner Brothers studio, Milwaukee’s Warner Grand Theater has been transformed into an acoustic paradise for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, proving that old buildings can be fine-tuned for the 21st century. Read more here.
The Pacific Symphony announces its 2022-23 season. Read more here.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra unveils their 2022-23 season and announces its Music For Maryland tour, reaching all 24 jurisdictions of the state over the next three years. Read more here.
The LA Philharmonic announces a 2022–23 season packed with high-profile events. Read more here.
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra announces its 2022-23 season. Read more here.
The North Carolina Symphony has announced the appointment of Carlos Miguel Prieto as its next Music Director. Read more here.
The San Diego Symphony begins a $125 million renovation of their historic Copley Hall. Read more here.
The Metropolitan Opera has announced their 2022-23 season, a mix of modern works, familiar favorites, and rarities from the past. Read more here.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has announced their 2022-23 season. Read more here.
The musicians of the San Antonio Symphony will perform independent concerts March 3-4. Read more here.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra begins a free Symphony in the City series. Read more here.
San Antonio Symphony musicians and management meet with a federal mediator in an effort to break the stalemate in negotiations. Read more here.
The Colorado Symphony has announced that Peter Oundjian will be the orchestra’s new Principal Conductor. Read more here.
Hollywood Bowl returns in full swing with its 100th anniversary lineup. Read more here.
The Kennedy Center has announced The Cartography Project, a multi-year initiative providing a platform for creators of color from communities grieving from race-based violence. Read more here.
San Francisco Opera's 99th season continues at War Memorial Opera House in June. Read more here.
The Rochester Philharmonic teams up with Three Heads Brewing for a new beer, PILSharmonic. Read more here.
The Metropolitan Opera commemorates Black history month with free nightly streamed programming. Read more here.
Chicago Lyric Opera has announced its 2022-23 season. Read more here.
Click here to read how some San Antonio Symphony musicians are keeping their lights on during the ongoing strike.
The Cleveland Orchestra invests in new technologies and fresh perspectives for their second season of In Focus. Read more here.
In light of what this past year held, I'm very pleased with the substantial progress we've made towards decreasing the size of our operating loss while also increasing our net assets. Minnesota Orchestra President and CEO Michelle Miller Burns. Read more here.
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra receives $150,000 from the NEA through American Rescue Plan. Read more here.
Officials with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra feared Omicron would dent sales. In the end, 80% of tickets for its January concerts were sold. Read more here.
San Antonio Symphony musicians and management set negotiations with mediator. Read more here.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra announces their 2022-23 season under new Music Director Robert Spano. Read more here.
New York City Ballet and the Philadelphia Orchestra will return to Saratoga Performing Arts Center for summer residencies. Read more here.
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s 2022 digital concerts, featuring full orchestra performances, will be released every month from January through May. Read more here.
The Boston Symphony has announced its upcoming 2022 Tanglewood season with performances June 17 through September 4. Read more here.
San Francisco Opera’s 2022–2023 season celebrates the company’s 100th birthday. Read more here.
The Philadelphia Orchestra returns to touring for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Read more here.
San Diego Symphony announces the return of its Music Connects program. Read more here.
The Cleveland Orchestra announces their 2022 summer Blossom schedule, performing 19 concerts between July 2 and Sept. 4. Read more here.
In March 2022, Washington National Opera will present the world premiere of Written in Stone for the Kennedy Center's landmark 50th anniversary season. Read more here.
Fort Worth Symphony announces 2022-23 season with new music director Robert Spano. Read more here.
Striking musicians propose a new offer to the San Antonio Symphony. Read more here.
The Grant Park Music Festival announced its 2022 season, running from June 15 to August 20, with a return to a 10-week season with full chorus and orchestra and plans to present 6 world-premieres. Read more here.
The New Jersey Symphony presents January concerts, including the Symphony's annual Lunar New Year celebration. Read more here.
Now it its sixth season, the Charlotte Symphony’s On Tap series mixes craft beer with classics. Read more here.
The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra will continue their 2021-22 season with over 40 upcoming performances in the new year. Read more here.
The Columbus Symphony Orchestra returns in-person for their annual Russian Winter Festival. Read more here.
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