The Berlin Philharmonic’s members cloistered in an undisclosed location Monday to elect their next chief conductor, one of the most prestigious jobs in the world of classical music. The orchestra’s ...

The prestigious Berlin Philharmonic, regarded as one of the world’s best orchestras, tapped 43-year-old Russian Kirill Petrenko as its new chief conductor, it announced in a surprise move Monday. In a ...

Kirill Petrenko thought about the challenge of leading the Berlin Philharmonic, perhaps the world’s greatest orchestra. “A hundred musicians have 100 opinions and 100 expectations — 100 different ...

BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin Philharmonic on Monday named Siberian-born Kirill Petrenko as its next chief conductor — one of the most prestigious jobs in the world of classical music. Petrenko, currently ...

BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin Philharmonic is giving itself up to a year to find a successor to chief conductor Simon Rattle after the orchestra deadlocked in a marathon vote to anoint a candidate. More ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2004 - United Archives GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo Simon Rattle is perhaps Britain’s ...

Caleb Young was last in Fort Wayne in February. Since then, the conductor has been in Minneapolis, Portland, Vienna, Detroit and Helsinki with some stops at his home base, Berlin. His travels keep him ...

The viola player Brett Dean took a risk that paid off when he left the orchestra to become a full-time composer. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Tyshawn Sorey’s tribute to the Rothko Chapel, a vintage Pavarotti ...