What instrument does the conductor play? Joshua Bell provided some clarity to this classical conundrum with a series of concerts in New Jersey this weekend. The old adage is that someone once asked a ...

Klaus Mäkelä has a lot on his plate — or more accurately, podium. With leading roles conducting orchestras in Oslo, Paris and Amsterdam, he's been called the fastest-rising maestro of his generation.

Andrés González is a conductor, musician, and advocate for youth music education. He was trained from a young age through El Sistema, a renowned music program in Venezuela, before moving to the United ...

If you go to an orchestra concert, it’s pretty easy to figure out what most of the people onstage are contributing to the overall experience. The violinists and cellists move their bows back and forth ...

When you hear the word “conductor,” what—or who—do you picture? “It’s probably an older white man who looks very serious,” jokes Kevin Fitzgerald, the 32-year-old who is currently the Associate ...

Joana Mallwitz, one of Germany’s fastest rising stars, makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in “The Marriage of Figaro” on Monday. The conductor Joana Mallwitz rehearsing at the Met.Credit... Supported ...

When Domingo Hindoyan, the Venezuelan chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, made his debut with L.A. Opera last November with “Roméo et Juliette,” Times classical music critic Mark Swed ...

A symphony orchestra can include more than one hundred musicians, yet a single conductor shapes the entire performance. Standing at the center of the stage with a back turned to the audience, this ...

On the concert, the FSO performs Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for Strings and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, paying tribute to Zimmerman's debut concert with the FSO in 2009, where these works ...