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Byline: Elizabeth Bloom Feb. 14--The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's principal second violin player has taken her talents out West. Jennifer Ross, who has led the symphony's second violin section since 1998, [...]

Byline: Natassia Bonyanpour Feb. 14--Victoria Bach Festival artistic director Craig Hella Johnson will be stepping down Sept. 1. Johnson will be leaving his position for personal and professional reasons, according [...]

Sept. 25--Jeremy Denk, music director for the 2014 Ojai Music Festival, has been named a 2013 MacArthur Fellow by the MacArthur Foundation. Denk, 43, is one of 24 recipients of [...]

Byline: Lisa McKinnon Nov. 05--A USC-trained musician with a degree in economics from Yale University has been named the new executive director of the Ojai Music Festival. Abhijit Sengupta replaces [...]

Byline: Courtenay Edelhart Oct. 03--Jamba Juice and Tilly's will co-sponsor a concert Friday at Bakersfield High School as part of a seven-city festival celebrating music and the arts. The stores [...]

June 02--When Chris Zervos was 8 years old, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral paid for him to take six piano lessons. 'As I recall, it came to a total of [...]

May 20--The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has hired a new director for the Singing Hoosiers. Vocal jazz conductor and teacher Steve Zegree will join the Jacobs School faculty [...]

Byline: Suzi Bartholomy Sept. 07--Gabriel Gray, executive director of the International Bluegrass Museum, has met many of the stars of bluegrass music and has collected anecdotes about them that make [...]

Byline: Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll Aug. 18--WELLFLEET -- Jeff Zinn has resigned as artistic director of Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater after 23 years -- a period in which the tiny, grass-roots [...]

Byline: Emily Burnham June 24--The Bangor Symphony Orchestra announced Thursday morning that Lucas Richman has been named its new music director and conductor. 'I am so honored to be welcomed [...]

Byline: Peter Dobrin May 24--Settlement Music School has done something it has rarely had to do in its 102-year history: hire a new executive director. Helen Eaton, 40, president and [...]

Byline: Aprill Brandon Apr. 19--From the time he was born, Gerald Snyder's Italian mother had one wish: that her son play music. And play he did. For 75 years, in [...]

Byline: Bob Mehr Apr. 16--Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist and music educator Kirk Whalum has been named president and CEO of the Memphis-based Soulsville Foundation. On Thursday, following a long search, the [...]

Jan 04, 2012 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- Taihe Rye Music Co. Ltd.'s CEO Song Ke on January 4 says that he has discussed with senior officers of [...]

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Oct 7, 2011 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Bombardier Aerospace, the world's leading business aircraft manufacturer, today welcomed highly acclaimed Frank Gehry as a Global aircraft brand ambassador. Gehry [...]

July 26--Oklahoma music icons Sam Harris, Jamie Oldaker, Jean Shepard and Les Gilliam will be the class of 2010 for the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. The four musicians will [...]

July 26--Oklahoma music icons Sam Harris, Jamie Oldaker, Jean Shepard and Les Gilliam will be the class of 2010 for the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. The four musicians will [...]

May 27--Starting with its next season, new hands will be holding the conductor's baton at Opera Roanoke. And singers will once again perform in costume. Scott Williamson, the artistic director [...]

John Lennon once boasted his British band was more popular than Jesus. Well, apparently that 1966 comment is now understood by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, which called it the bragging [...]

Feb. 14--The Memphis and Shelby County Music Commission still doesn't have an active Web site -- in fact, now its presence on the social networking site MySpace has been deleted [...]

Nov. 29--Kostis Protopapas, Tulsa Opera's associate conductor and chorusmaster, has been named interim artistic director, succeeding Carol I. Crawford. Crawford, who has led Tulsa Opera since 1993, announced in May [...]

Oct. 31--The search for the next head of the Memphis and Shelby County Music Commission officially begins Nov. 7. The city will post the $79,000-a-year executive director's job that day, [...]