Classical music devotees and concert hall neophytes alike tend to take it for granted that it’s the conductor, more than anyone, who lends each orchestral performance its distinctive character.

BEYOND THE BATON: A CONDUCTOR'S JOURNEY is an hour-long film that documents Wilkins’ experience as a Black conductor and his ... Thomas Wilkins is teaching orchestra conducting. (elegant music) ...

Wilkins is the principal conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Music director, laureate of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony's artistic advisor and longtime family and youth ...

On the U.S. conducting circuit, a lot of batons are being passed. In addition to Dimitri Mitropoulos, who is leaving the New York Philharmonic to be replaced by Leonard Bernstein (TIME, Nov. 25), ...

The Pacific Symphony’s 2025-26 season will be a time of transition as both Artistic and Music Director Designate Alexander Shelley and longtime conductor Carl St.Clair, who will assume the title ...

Between the silence of memory and the swell of a symphony, Maria Badstue has found her home in conducting orchestras. Born in India, raised in Denmark, and carried across continents by rhythm and ...

The founder of "Classical Pride" is taking the music of Leonard Bernstein, Camille Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky on tour, from ...