The New Jersey Symphony is getting a gleaming 550-seat theater in downtown Jersey City, to be called Symphony Center. Read more here.
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra reaches a three-year contract with its musicians, which includes a 12.6% raise in base salary over the course of the agreement. Read more here.
The musicians and management of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra have announced a new five-year labor agreement. Read more here.
Houston Symphony executive director and CEO John Mangum has been selected to be the general director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Read more here.
The Florida Orchestra plans to build a Center for Music Education and Innovation in a new four-story building in St. Petersburg. Read more here.
Gary Ginstling, the New York Philharmonic’s president and chief executive, is leaving after just a year on the job. Read more here.
ICSOM is pleased to announce that Fátima Landa Velazquez, an oboist from México who will be attending the Curtis Institute of Music in the fall, is the 2024 recipient of the ICSOM BU Tanglewood Institute Scholarship. Click here for our press release.
The Phoenix Symphony and their musicians have agree upon a new contract. Read more here.
The Minnesota Orchestra's president and CEO Michelle Burns is leaving for the same job in Texas, taking charge of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Read more here.
Douglas Rosenthal will be the host of ICSOM’s monthly interview series Musician Profiles: Celebrating Racial Diversity for the 2024-25 season. Click here for our press release.
The Louisville Orchestra announces their 2024 In Harmony tour, bringing free concerts to communities across Kentucky in July and September. Read more here.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has announced a groundbreaking federal funding boost for its OrchKids program. Read more here.
San Francisco Symphony major donor Cynthia Hersey criticizes deep programming cuts and a leadership void with the announced departure of music director Esa-Pekka Salonen. Read more here.
The Charlotte Symphony has launched MERGE, an innovative series at the Blackbox Theatre, blending orchestral works with contemporary electronic music and an LED projection show. Read more here.
After a $125 million redesign, the San Diego Symphony announces their 2024-25 season at the newly-named Jacobs Music Center. Read more here.
A new report reveals the the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra generates $125 million in economic impact to their community annually. Read more here.
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra musicians have announced a vote of no confidence in the orchestra's managing director and president, warning that the community is at risk of losing the SPCO. Read more here.
The suggestion that the 45-year-old Abravanel Hall could be demolished or altered has led the Utah Symphony musicians to act! Click here to sign the online petition "Save Abravanel Hall,” which has attracted more than 3,400 signatures within the first 24 hours, and more than 10,000 people having signed it within days later.
Dallas Symphony leader Kim Noltemy has been named President/CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Read more here.
Philanthropist Mercedes Bass recently donated $5 million to the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, to be allocated over the next five years. As part of her donation, Bass created the Campaign for Artistic Excellence Matching Gift Program in an effort to encourage others to support the symphony. Read more here.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has announced that Cristian Macelaru will begin a four-year term as their new music director in the 2025-26 season. Read more here.
The $134 million renovation of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s historic home, Powell Hall, is essentially on-time, on-budget, and expected to open in 2025. Read more here.
Click here to read how the Charlotte Symphony quietly raised $41 million to help ensure a stable future.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra appoints Klaus Mäkelä as the youngest music director in the orchestra’s history. Read more here.
For the first time in thirty-five years, the Pacific Symphony is searching for a new Music Director. Read more here.
Lawrence Loh, music director for the Syracuse Orchestra, will conclude his tenure with the organization at the end of the 2024-25 season. Read more here.
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s resignation in San Francisco is a wake-up call for arts groups nationwide. Read more here.
Esa-Pekka Salonen will leave the San Francisco Symphony following the 2024-25 season, announcing his departure with a statement critical of the orchestra’s leadership. Read more here.
Enrique Mazzola has extended his contract as music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago through 2030-31. Read more here.
The Kansas City Symphony announces its first-ever European concert tour in August 2024, led by the Symphony’s incoming Music Director, Matthias Pintscher. Read more here.
The San Francisco Ballet has received a $60 million donation, the largest in its history. Read more here.
Symphoria, a beacon of classical music in Central New York, has announced a pivotal change: it will henceforth be known as The Syracuse Orchestra. Read more here.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and its musicians have agreed to a new three-year contract that increases wages 10.9% over the previous contract by year three. Read more here.
The Columbus Symphony Orchestra is planning a $275 million new music hall with a 1600-seat main performance hall and an additional nine other multi-use performance and special event spaces. Read more here.
Conductor Robert Spano will be the Washington National Opera’s next music director. Read more here.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has announced that conductor Jun Märkl will be the ISO’s eighth Music Director, beginning with the 2024-25 season. Read more here.
The Oregon Symphony Orchestra and its musicians have reached a three-year contract which includes a 6% wage increase in the 1st year, followed by increases of 3.5% in ensuing years. Read more here.
“I’m super grateful that scholarships like ICSOMs exist … it really opens up a path for musicians who may feel that they’re cornered by their finances … I can’t express how much this means to me and how much it will mean to future recipients of the scholarship as well.” Cameron Hall, 2023 ICSOM BU Tanglewood Institute Scholarship recipient. Click here to view his interview.
