LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When Teddy Abrams was named conductor of the Louisville Orchestra in 2014, he was the youngest to lead a major orchestra in the United States. While that is a ground-breaking ...

Marin Alsop, one of the first women to helm a major American orchestra, offered another form of leadership at Abravanel Hall last week as she received a prestigious award that in years past has gone ...

ATLANTA — This is a historic time for the world-famous Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. It now has as its new music director and conductor, the only woman to hold this post at a major American symphony ...

On Thursday evening, Nathalie Stutzmann makes her debut as the Philadelphia Orchestra’s new principal guest conductor, leading the musicians through Schubert’s 9th Symphony, and a newer work, ...

Facing racism caused her to second guess her talents and intelligence. Elayne Jones, the first Black percussionist to hold a principal position in a major symphony orchestra, died at age 94 on ...

The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Institute of Music have formed an arrangement that they say "goes further and deeper than any other partnership in America between a school of music and a ...