https://cadenza.work/news/season-openings-2026-twenty-one-orchestras-mahler-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T16:10:02.227Z Ten Orchestras Opened Their Season With Mahler. Between Them They Played the First Symphony Through the Sixth, With No Gaps. season opening, Mahler, Tabita Berglund, Barbara Hannigan, Karen Gomyo, Klaus Mäkelä, Anders Hillborg, Alexander Shelley, Kirill Petrenko, world premieres https://cadenza.work/news/jazz-funding-2026-three-and-a-half-million-counted-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T14:30:54.609Z We Counted Every Jazz Funding Scheme We Could Verify From 2026. Six American Programmes Alone Come to $3.5 Million. jazz funding, Doris Duke Foundation, Chamber Music America, Jazz Road, Next Jazz Legacy, Peter Whittingham Award, Berlin Senate, Miles Pillinger, jazz, good news https://cadenza.work/news/wigmore-hall-five-thousand-free-tickets-under-25s-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T14:26:40.823Z Wigmore Hall Is Giving Away More Than Five Thousand Free Tickets to Under-25s. That Covers a Third of Everything It Programmes. Wigmore Hall, free tickets, under 25s, access, surtitles, Igor Levit, Yunchan Lim, Kurtag, London, good news https://cadenza.work/news/lurium-getxo-jazz-2026-group-competition-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T14:18:29.192Z A French Sextet Won the Group Competition at Getxo and Took €4,500. Their Pianist Won Best Soloist on Top of It. Lurium, Getxo Jazz, Levi Harvey, Basque Country, group competition, jazz, competitions, emerging artists, good news https://cadenza.work/news/connor-sobieri-first-steps-debut-album-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T14:16:36.165Z He Wrote His Debut Album Over Five Years, Some of It in Hospital. Ten Per Cent of Every Copy Sold Goes Back to the Charity. Connor Sobieri, First Steps, alto saxophone, NYU, Birdland, Dizzys Club, Crohns and Colitis Foundation, jazz, debut album, good news https://cadenza.work/news/jazz-veterans-2026-one-point-three-million-sixteen-musicians-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T13:38:17.297Z Two American Institutions Gave $1.3 Million to Sixteen Veteran Jazz Musicians This Year. One of the Cheques Was for $100,000, With No Conditions. NEA Jazz Masters, Jazz Legacies Fellowship, Mellon Foundation, Jazz Foundation of America, Carmen Lundy, Kenny Barron, Archie Shepp, Patrice Rushen, jazz, good news https://cadenza.work/news/weston-sprott-jazz-at-lincoln-center-executive-director-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T13:22:07.269Z He Has Played Trombone in the Met Pit Since 2005. On 21 September He Starts Running Jazz at Lincoln Center. Weston Sprott, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Juilliard, Black Orchestral Network, Greg Scholl, trombone, jazz, good news https://cadenza.work/news/york-early-music-2026-recording-contract-not-cash-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T13:16:00.424Z The First Prize in York Is a Recording Contract, Not Money. An Ensemble Founded Two Years Ago Won It. York International Young Artists Competition, The Lyons Mouth, National Centre for Early Music, Linn Records, Bianca Cucini, Lagrime, Tra Noi, early music, competitions, good news https://cadenza.work/news/tenor-vinas-2026-no-tenors-ukrainian-sweep-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T13:02:02.765Z A Competition Named After a Tenor Gave Its Six Prizes to No Tenors. Ukrainian Singers Took the Top Three. Tenor Vinas, Vladyslav Buialskyi, Yuliia Zasimova, Vlad Tlushch, Felix Park, Karla Pineda, Elionor Martinez, Gran Teatre del Liceu, voice, competitions https://cadenza.work/news/takemitsu-award-2026-one-judge-112-scores-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T12:59:45.603Z One Composer Read 112 Scores and Chose Four. That Is the Entire Judging Process of the Takemitsu Award. Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, Jorg Widmann, Jaehyeok Choi, Ziyi Tao, Kenshi Matsuo, Zhehe Cui, Tokyo Philharmonic, composition, competitions, good news https://cadenza.work/news/queen-elisabeth-cello-2026-twelve-laureates-all-paid-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T12:43:02.993Z Twelve Cellists Reached the Queen Elisabeth Final. All Twelve Were Paid, and Six of Them Have No Rank at All. Queen Elisabeth Competition, Ettore Pagano, Tae-Yeon Kim, Leland Ko, Lionel Martin, Fang Man, Gofriller Casals cello, cello, competitions, emerging artists https://cadenza.work/news/ayumu-ibaraki-premio-jaen-2026-forty-per-cent-of-the-pool-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T12:14:09.166Z Ayumu Ibaraki Won Two Prizes in One Night in Jaén. Together They Are Forty Per Cent of Everything the Competition Paid Out. Ayumu Ibaraki, Premio Jaen, Concurso Internacional de Piano, Benjamin Moser, Lucerne, piano, competitions, Spain, emerging artists, good news https://cadenza.work/news/roman-fediurko-takamatsu-rubinstein-two-podiums-six-months-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T12:12:02.213Z Roman Fediurko Won Takamatsu in March and Took a Rubinstein Medal in September. He Also Collected Four of Seven Special Prizes Along the Way. Roman Fediurko, Takamatsu International Piano Competition, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, Milana Chernyavska, Graz, Kyiv, piano, competitions, emerging artists, good news https://cadenza.work/news/competition-winners-2026-census-two-hundred-and-one-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T11:50:56.897Z We Counted Two Hundred and One Competition Winners From 2026. Only a Third of Them Have a Published Age. competitions, 2026 results, Queen Elisabeth Competition, Takamatsu, Premio Jaen, Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Toru Takemitsu Award, census, emerging artists, good news https://cadenza.work/news/bridget-conley-st-louis-principal-tuba-fellowship-to-chair-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T11:45:58.006Z Bridget Conley Went From a Training Fellowship Straight Into a Named Principal Chair. Almost Nobody Does That. Bridget Conley, St Louis Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, tuba, Carol Jantsch, Yale School of Music, Vanderbilt Blair School, Leonard Falcone Competition, emerging artists, good news https://cadenza.work/news/filippo-barsali-liechtenstein-conducting-competition-173-applicants-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T11:44:08.483Z One Hundred and Seventy-Three Conductors Applied. Nine Got to Wave a Stick, and Filippo Barsali Went Home With 30,000 Francs. Filippo Barsali, Anna Bottani, International Conducting Competition Liechtenstein, Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein, Vaduz, conducting, competitions, emerging artists, good news https://cadenza.work/news/deutscher-musikinstrumentenfonds-2026-thirty-four-loans-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T11:25:35.089Z Germany Loaned Out Thirty-Four Historic String Instruments in One Weekend. The Youngest Player to Get One Is Twelve. Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfonds, Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Elena Meyer, Benjamin Gunst, Antoni Wrona, Anton Carus, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, instrument loans, Lubeck, emerging artists https://cadenza.work/news/stepan-armasar-concertgebouw-haitink-associate-conductor-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T11:18:05.197Z The Concertgebouw's Newest Job Is Two Years Old and Has Had Two Holders. The First One Just Left to Run an Orchestra. Stepan Armasar, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Aurel Dawidiuk, Bernard Haitink, Toscanini Competition, Klaus Makela, Bochum Symphony, conducting, emerging artists, good news https://cadenza.work/news/jonathan-tetelman-2026-27-werther-radames-samson-vocal-weight-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T11:04:55.272Z Jonathan Tetelman Sings Werther, Samson and Radamès in One Season. Those Three Roles Are Not Usually the Same Voice. Jonathan Tetelman, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Houston Grand Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Samson et Dalila, Aida, Werther, tenor, vocal weight https://cadenza.work/news/san-carlo-teatro-colon-five-year-agreement-technical-staff-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T10:40:10.332Z Naples and Buenos Aires Signed a Five-Year Opera Agreement in the Salón Dorado. The Deadline That Matters Is 2037. Teatro di San Carlo, Teatro Colon, Fulvio Macciardi, Gerardo Grieco, Antonio Tajani, Neapolis 2500, Buenos Aires, Naples, opera, cultural diplomacy https://cadenza.work/news/rps-isserlis-scholarships-2026-six-musicians-22500-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T10:40:10.040Z Six Musicians Just Won Money to Go and Study Abroad. The Society Paying for It Has Sent One Musician to America in Four Years. Royal Philharmonic Society, Isserlis Scholarship, Bridget Yee, George Winter, Jaren Ziegler, Nina Martin, Olivia Clark, Sophia Kannathasan, Kronberg Academy, study abroad https://cadenza.work/news/rpo-research-2026-orchestral-interest-eight-year-peak-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T10:40:09.775Z The Royal Philharmonic Says Interest in Orchestral Music Is at a Six-Year Peak. By Its Own Published Measure It Is an Eight-Year High. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, Sarah Bardwell, audience research, film music, concert attendance, United Kingdom, good news https://cadenza.work/news/isabella-leonarda-motet-first-modern-performance-badajoz-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T10:40:09.521Z A Novara Nun Dedicated Her Twelfth Book of Motets to the Holy Roman Emperor in 1686. Badajoz Plays Two of Them on Sunday. Isabella Leonarda, Badajoz, Festival de Musica Sacra y Antigua, Pergamo Ensemble, Elisabeth Hetherington, Huehuetenango, early music, repertoire recovery, Novara, good news https://cadenza.work/news/enescu-competition-2026-cello-niederhauser-working-principal-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T10:40:09.263Z A Salaried Principal Cellist Beat a Field of Teenagers in Bucharest. The 19-Year-Old He Beat Went Home With All But €2,000 of First Prize. George Enescu International Competition, Samuel Niederhauser, Joshua Kovac, Sanghyeok Park, Seojin Jung, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Bucharest, cello, competitions, entry fees https://cadenza.work/news/beijing-music-festival-2026-700-artists-32-countries-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T10:40:08.995Z Charles Dutoit Turns 90 Two Days Before He Opens Beijing's Festival. One Violinist Will Play All Five Mozart Concertos in a Single Evening. Beijing International Music Festival, Ning Feng, Charles Dutoit, Elisabeth Leonskaja, London Philharmonic, Long Yu, Dane Lam, Cui Jian, Mozart, good news https://cadenza.work/news/asheville-symphony-play-private-lessons-strings-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T10:40:08.485Z A School District Cut Its Orchestra Class. Fifteen Days Later the Symphony Was Paying for the Lessons Instead. Asheville Symphony, PLAY, Tyson Hamrick, Asheville City Schools, music education, strings, private lessons, scholarships, North Carolina, good news https://cadenza.work/news/ard-munich-2026-english-pages-wrong-prize-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-12T10:40:04.849Z Nine Musicians Won Prizes in Munich This Week. Three of Them Won the Hardest One, and the Record Should Say So. ARD International Music Competition, Munich, Enrico Bassi, William Fielding, Johanna Bilgeri, Silvan Meschke, Mélodie Michel, bassoon, organ, Nina Šenk https://cadenza.work/news/lucerne-festival-2026-89-percent-free-audience-ledger Cadenza en 2026-09-11T18:22:59.094Z Lucerne Has Cut Fifteen Paid Events in Four Years. Its Attendance Rate Went Up, and One Trade Report Called That a Dip. Lucerne Festival, Sebastian Nordmann, festival attendance, free admission, Salzburg Festival, Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Jörg Widmann, KKL Luzern