The renowned composer has scored many of the most famous films of our time. But until this summer, he had never attempted a ...

Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan is unconventional, small-but-mighty and mesmerizing to watch. She will conduct the ...

Felder channels Rachmaninoff Pianist/actor/writer Hershey Felder returns to Writers Theatre with his latest theatrical ...

Since August 1966, the Philadelphia Orchestra has been spending a portion of its summer at the Saratoga Performing Arts ...

Conductor Gemma New leads the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in performing 'What Keeps Me Awake,' by the DSO's composer-in-residence Angélica Negrón, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in ...

At age 60, the Mexican composer has finally won the recognition she deserves, with new recordings, prestigious residencies and a star conductor championing her music.

In symphonic music, the conductor is king. In jazz, the act of leading a band traditionally hasn’t meant much more than giving a downbeat and occasionally sharpening accents and dynamics. Duke ...

After a 15-year collaboration, MidAmerica Productions (MAP) has named Marc-André Bougie from Texarkana, Texas, one of its Honorary Composer/Conductors. He joins a roster which comprises only ...

Krzysztof Penderecki, an award-winning conductor and one of the world’s most popular contemporary classical music composers whose works have been featured in Hollywood films like “The Shining ...

British composer and conductor John Lanchbery, one of ballet's most gifted and prolific musical voices, died in Australia Wednesday of cancer. He was 79. "If I've had any success with my full ...

Irish-born composer-conductor Eímear Noone will conduct excerpts from the five nominated scores. She is the first female to lead the orchestra in the history of the televised awards, the Academy ...

Thus the conductor, instead of being a helper, a channel of communication between the contemporary composer and the public, often becomes an insurmountable obstacle to the development of a ...