Conductor Paul Mauffray has been awarded 2nd place in The American Prize Competition for Professional Orchestra Conductors. 

Conductor Akiko Fujimoto, who was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra in May 2017, has been named Associate Conductor for the 2018-19 season.

Conductor Troy Quinn has been appointed Music Director of the Venice Symphony Orchestra in Florida.

Multi-genre artist Damien Sneed has been appointed Music Director and Composer-in-residence of the Houston Grand Opera. 

Conductor Roger Kalia has been appointed Music Director of Orchestra Santa Monica. 

Conductor Roger Kalia has been named a 2018 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award recipient.

Conductor Caleb Young’s contract with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic has been extended with the new title of Associate Conductor.

Soprano Jessye Norman has been chosen as The Twelfth Glenn Gould Prize Laureate. 

Conductor Adam Bodony, Director of Orchestras at Purdue University, is now represented by William Reinert Associates, Inc. 

The Illinois Council of Orchestras has announced that Conductor Kirk Muspratt is the recipient of its Award for Conductor of the Year for 2018 Professional Orchestra Category). 

Conductor Andres Lopera has been appointed Assistant Conductor of the Columbus Symphony and Music Director of the Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestras.

Conductor Martin Pearlman and Boston Baroque will perform Beethoven’s opera Fidelio in the first ever period instrument performance of the opera in Boston.

Conductor Andres Lopera, Assistant Conductor of the Colorado Symphony, is now represented by William Reinert Associates, Inc. 

Conductor Paul Mauffray will conduct his new edition of George Whitefield Chadwick’s burlesque operetta Tabasco at Le Petit Théätre du Vieux Carré in New Orleans on January 25, 26, 27 and 28, 2018. 

Pianist Jeffrey Biegel is spearheading a new project with arranger Dick Tunney to create a concerto for piano and orchestra from Vince Guaraldi’s music for the animated Peanuts specials. 

Conductor Lloyd Butler will conduct the Irish Tenors 2017 Christmas Holiday Tour beginning November 30.

Conductor Ian Christopher Passmore has been appointed Assistant Conductor of the Omaha Symphony. 

Conductor Nathan Brock has extended his two-year contract with the Hamburg State Opera for a third season, through July 2018.

Conductor Steven Jarvi has been appointed Interim Artistic Director of the Charlottesville Opera for the 2018 Season. 

Pianist Jeffrey Biegel has joined composer Giovanni Allevi in recording the composer’s Concerto for Piano and Symphonic Orchestra No. 1.

Multi-genre artist Damien Sneed will join the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Chicago Urban League partnership as composer in their multi-year endeavor Empower Youth! Igniting Creativity through the Arts.

Conductor Isaac Kramer, Co-founder and Music Director of the New York Conductors Symphony, is now represented by William Reinert Associates, Inc. 

Conductor Alan Pierson will have his debut performance with the Symphoniker Hamburg at the new Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Großer Saal (Hamburg, Germany) on Friday, October 20 2017.