Listening to the landscape
As Artistic Director of the Carmel Bach Festival, Grete Pedersen is shaping a programme where sound, place and perspective intersect, placing Bach alongside contemporary voices. … Read more
Arts & Tech: It’s time we built the table
By Lisa Richards Toney, President and CEO, Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) In January, I stood at Jazz at Lincoln Center and delivered opening … Read more
Britten Pears Arts and Royal Society of Musicians launch residential wellbeing retreat for music professionals
Britten Pears Arts and The Royal Society of Musicians, with specialist input from the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM), have launched the Creative … Read more
Seven New York institutions unite to revive VOX American opera development programme
Seven leading New York music organisations have joined forces to relaunch VOX: American Voices Opera Lab, a programme dedicated to presenting excerpts of new grand … Read more
Creative Convergence: Same Same, And Different
ISPA 2026 Singapore Congress (19-22 May 2026) When the international performing arts community gathers in Singapore this May, it will do so under a theme … Read more
West Kowloon confirms performing arts collaborations ahead of 2027 centre opening
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) has signed five new Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with international performing arts organisations, marking a significant step in … Read more
A shared calling
As they prepare to step away from Music@Menlo after 25 years, Wu Han and David Finckel speak to Juliette Barber about the artistic principles that … Read more
Six in Sixty: Simon Wales
Early bird or night owl? Definitely an early bird, as it’s when I feel that my thinking is clearest and I tend to work best … Read more
OperaUpClose
Intimate in scale, mighty in mischief: Gianni Schicchi hits the road with OperaUpClose Based at Mayflower Studios in Southampton, England, OperaUpClose has built a national … Read more
sideNotes: The problem with policing joy
It was Friday, 11 April 1958, the final round of the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto was the final work … Read more