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Santa Fe Pro Musica Announes 2025-26 Season

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Santa Fe Pro Musica presents its 2025-26 season. This article only features vocal events. Gabriel Kahane performs music by Dvořák in the opening concert. Performance Date: October 5, 2025 Soprano Sherezade Panthaki headlines “A Baroque Christmas.” Performance Date: December 20, 2025 Soprano Sherezade Panthaki joins the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra in a concert featuring Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Performance Date: {…}

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Hailey Fuqua & Kevin Deas Perform in Winchendon Music Festival 2025

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(Photo credits: Elena Snow & Boston Baroque) The Winchendon Music Festival announces its 2025 season. This article only features concerts with classical vocal works. Soprano and composer Hailey Fuqua performs in a concert of classical, folk, newgrass, and world genres. Fuqua is joined by instrumentalists Asako Takeuchi, Jacques Lee Wood, Andrew Arceci, George Lykogiannis, and Mike Williams. Performance Date: October {…}

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Cast Change: Fleur Barron Joins Cast of ‘One Morning Turns Into Eternity’

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(Photo by Victoria Cadish) Salzburg Festival has announced a cast change for its production of “One Morning Turns Into An Eternity.” The company revealed that Wiebke Lehmkuhl has withdrawn from her participation in the production due to family reasons. In her place, Fleur Barron will sing the vocal part in Mahler’s “Der Abschied.” Barron is set to appear in the {…}

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New York Philharmonic Announces Updates to 2025-26 Season

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The New York Philharmonic has announced updates to its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal updates. The company announced that the title of Ellen Reid’s new work for chorus and orchestra is “Earth Between Oceans.” The piece is a New York Philharmonic co-commission with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The piece will receive its New York Premiere on {…}

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Grammy Awards Announce Update to Classical Field

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(Graphic courtesy of the Recording Academy) The Grammy Awards have announced updates to various categories, including the classical field. The Recording Academy announced that in the classical field categories, composers and lyricists/librettists will now be eligible for GRAMMY recognition alongside all other key creative personnel, including artists, producers, and engineers on winning albums. Other updates were made in the General {…}

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Renée Fleming, Leonard Slatkin Among Major Guests of 2025 Chorus America Conference

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(Photo credit: Andrew Eccles) The Chorus America Conference will head to St. Louis this year. The event will take place from June 5-7, 2025. The Conference will open with “Music and the Mind,” led by Renée Fleming. Additionally, there will be performances by such organizations as The Bach Society of Saint Louis, St. Louis Women’s Chorale, Continuum Vocal Ensemble, The {…}

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In Midst of Trump’s Assault on Arts Industries, Major Musicians Launch Petition in Favor of Freedom of Artistic Expression

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A number of the world’s major classical artists have penned a petition to underscore the importance of free expression and artistic freedom in society. “We, the undersigned, are American classical musicians. Our passion and mission are making music and, in doing so, offering listeners the possibility of deepening their experience and understanding of the world. We are not politicians: We {…}

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Wigmore Hall Says it No Longer Requires Public Funding

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(Photo credit: Richard Saker) Director John Gilhooly reports that Wigmore Hall has succeeded in its aim to raise £10m and will no longer require Arts Council funding. Last year, Gilhooly launched a fund that aimed to make the Wigmore Hall financially self-sustaining in “an uncertain public environment for classical music in the UK.” The venue hoped to raise £10m by {…}