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Friday, 9 June 2006

Topic: POSITIONS
Minnesota Orchestra music director Osmo Vanska will step down as chief conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra after the 2007-08 season. Vanska will conclude a two-decade tenure with the Finnish orchestra, which began when he became music director in 1988....LINK



Thursday, 1 June 2006

Topic: POSITIONS
Jeffrey Sharkey, the No. 2 administrator at the Cleveland Institute of Music, has been named to the No. 1 post at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
...LINK to complete story



Monday, 29 May 2006

Topic: POSITIONS
Don Roth, a former president of the St. Louis Symphony and Oregon Symphony, has been appointed executive director of the four-year-old Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Davis....LINK



Friday, 26 May 2006

Topic: POSITIONS
Royston Nash came to that conclusion this past week when the Cape Cod Symphony conductor announced that the 2006-07 season would be his last. The move ends a 26-year stint as conductor and music director for the Cotuit resident...LINK



Thursday, 25 May 2006

Topic: POSITIONS
The Chicago Symphony has appointed musicologist Gerard McBurney to the newly created post of artistic programming advisor, the CSO announced...LINK



Wednesday, 24 May 2006

Topic: POSITIONS
The Berlin Philharmonic has denied a report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that music director Simon Rattle will soon leave the orchestra....LINK




Topic: POSITIONS
Jonathan Dlouhy, the principal oboist of the Atlanta Symphony for the last 27 years, will step down at the end of the current season, the orchestra announced....LINK



Tuesday, 23 May 2006

Topic: POSITIONS
Edward Johnson, who was in charge of New York's Metropolitan Opera from 1935 to 1950, was a tenor. But Joseph Volpe, head of the Met since 1990 (he plans to retire this year), came up through the ranks in a more unusual way. He started by building sets at the Met. It was a first. ...LINK




Topic: POSITIONS
Perth's West Australian Symphony will not renew the contract of chief conductor Matthias Bamert when it expires next year, the Australian reports....LINK




Topic: POSITIONS
The Montreal Symphony has appointed Jean-Francois Rivest to the post of conductor in residence, the MSO announced. Rivest will assist music director Kent Nagano, conduct the MSO, and work on educational, community, and contemporary-music programs. ....link to the story



Sunday, 21 May 2006

Topic: POSITIONS
The Utah Symphony will lose one of its horn players this summer when Steve Kostyniak leaves to take a position with the Pittsburgh Symphony.
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Friday, 19 May 2006

Topic: POSITIONS
Seattle assistant conductor Christian Knapp leaves not because he hasn't found his work here exciting, fulfilling and educational, but because his career is burgeoning and he has too many engagements upcoming to make it feasible to maintain a steady position in Seattle.
...to the story



Tuesday, 16 May 2006

Topic: POSITIONS
Composer Tod Machover has been appointed visiting professor of composition at London's Royal Academy of Music, the conservatory announced.
...LINK to complete story




Topic: POSITIONS
After much speculation in the press, Daniel Barenboim has now been officially named as principal guest conductor at La Scala, Milan. He will combine his new role with his current position as general music director of the Berlin Staatsoper, a contract that runs until 2012.
...LINK to complete story



Sunday, 14 May 2006

Topic: POSITIONS
Conductor Daniel Barenboim will take on a prominent role at La Scala, more than a year after Riccardo Muti resigned as music director at the Milan opera house
...LINK to complete story



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