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==Events== * January 14 – Opening night gala concert at the Philharmonie de Paris〔(Tom Service, "La Philharmonie de Paris: is this a new musical and social future for Paris?" ''The Guardian'' (Tom Service on classical music blog), 15 January 2015 )〕 * January 15 – The Alabama Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Carlos Izcaray as its next music director, as of September 2015. * January 19 - The Basel Sinfonietta announces the appointment of Baldur Brönnimann as its first-ever principal conductor, effective with the 2016-2017 season.< * January 23 - The Konzert Theater Bern announces the appointment of Kevin John Edusei as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2015-2016 season. * January 28 * * The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande announces the appointment of Jonathan Nott as its 10th music director and artistic director, effective January 2017. * * The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces the appointment of Mason Bates as its first-ever composer-in-residence, effective with the 2015–2016 season, for a term of 3 years. * February 6: * * The Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra (''Düsseldorfer Symphoniker'') announces the appointment of Ádám Fischer as its next principal conductor. * * The New York Philharmonic announces that Alan Gilbert is to conclude his tenure as the orchestra's music director after the 2016–2017 season. * February 8 – First US performance of the Felix Mendelssohn edition (1841, Leipzig) of the JS Bach ''St Matthew Passion'' * February 12 * * Arts Council England announces its intention to remove English National Opera from its national portfolio of regularly funded UK arts organisations, and to change its funding arrangement from a 3-year plan to a 2-year plan, with stipulations that ENO reform its current business model. * * The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra announces that Edo de Waart is to conclude his tenure as the orchestra's music director after the 2016–2017 season. * February 18 – The National Symphony Orchestra and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announce that Christoph Eschenbach is to conclude his music directorship of both organisations after the 2016–2017 season. * February 26 – The BBC Philharmonic announces the appointment of Mark Simpson as its next Composer-in-Association, effective September 2015. * February 27: * * The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra announces the appointment of Giordano Bellincampi as its next music director, effective in 2016, with an initial contract of 3 years.〔("Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra announces new Music Director", 27 February 2015 )〕 * * The Memphis Symphony Orchestra announces the scheduled conclusion of the tenure of Mei-Ann Chen as its music director, after the end of the 2015-2016 season. * March 3 – The London Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Sir Simon Rattle as its next music director, effective September 2017, with an initial contract of 5 years. * March 4 – The New York Philharmonic announces that David Geffen is to donate $100M USD to the orchestra for the renovation of Avery Fisher Hall, with the proviso that the hall be renamed "David Geffen Hall" and bear the new name in perpetuity.〔(Brian Wise, "Avery Fisher Hall to Be Renamed David Geffen Hall". WQXR blog, 4 March 2015 )〕 * March 9 * * English National Opera announces the appointment of Cressida Pollock, a management consultant, as its interim CEO. * * The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia announces the appointments of Roberto Abbado and Fabio Biondi as its next joint music directors, and of Ramón Tebar as its next principal guest conductor.〔(Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia, "Roberto Abbado y Fabio Biondi asumen la dirección musical del Palau de les Arts" (Spanish-language announcement), 9 March 2015 )〕 * March 11 * * The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Thomas Dausgaard as its 11th chief conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season. * * Simon Halsey is announced as the recipient of the Queen's Medal for Music 2014. * March 16 – Alan Buribayev becomes principal conductor of the Astana Opera House, Kazakhstan.〔(IMG Artists agency, "Alan Buribayev Named Principal Conductor of Kazakhstan’s Astana Opera House". 17 March 2015 )〕 * March 18 – The Birmingham Conservatoire announces the appointment of Julian Lloyd Webber as its next Principal, after the scheduled retirement of David Saint, the current Principal, in June 2015. * March 19 – The Montreal Symphony Orchestra announces a new five-year recording contract with Decca Records. * April 3 * * The Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra announces the appointment of Kazuki Yamada as its next principal conductor and artistic director, effective September 2016, with an initial contract of 3 years.〔(Konzertdirektion Schmid agency notice on Kazuki Yamada appointment with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, 3 April 2015 )〕 * * The Boston Symphony Orchestra announces a new recording partnership with Deutsche Grammophon that focuses on the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. * April 14 – The Glenn Gould Foundation announces its selection of Philip Glass as the Eleventh Glenn Gould Prize Laureate.〔(The Glenn Gould Foundation, "Eleventh Laureate Announced". 14 April 2015 )〕 * April 20 - The Japan Philharmonic Orchestra announces the appointment of Pietari Inkinen as its next chief conductor, effective September 2016, with an initial contract of 3 seasons. * April 21 – Scottish Opera announces the appointment of Stuart Stratford as its next music director, effective 1 June 2015. * April 24 – The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic announces the appointment of Sir Andrew Davis as its new Conductor Emeritus. * April 28 – The Zurich Chamber Orchestra announces the appointment of Daniel Hope as its next music director, effective in 2016. * May 1 – The 2015 Malko Competition for conductors announces Tung-Chieh Chuang as this year's winner. * May 12 – The BBC National Orchestra of Wales announces the appointment of Huw Watkins as its next Composer-in-Association, for the period 2015-2018.〔(Schott Music, "Huw Watkins announced as BBC National Orchestra of Wales' Composer-in-Association", 12 May 2015 )〕 * May 26 - The BBC announces the appointment of David Pickard as the next Director of the BBC Proms. * June 3 - The Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur announces the appointment of Thomas Zehetmair as its next principal conductor, effective September 2016, with an initial contract of 3 seasons. * June 9 - The RAI National Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of James Conlon as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2016-2017 season.〔(Michael Cooper, 'Orchestra in Turin, Italy, Names James Conlon as Principal Conductor'. ''New York Times'', 'ArtsBeat' blog, 9 June 2015 )〕 * June 11 - The Orchestre de Paris announces the appointment of Daniel Harding as its 9th principal conductor, effective September 2016. * June 12 - Queen's Birthday Honours 2015〔(Cabinet Office, Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street; Queen's Birthday Honours List 2015 )〕 * * James MacMillan and Karl Jenkins are each made Knight Bachelor. * * Sir Neville Marriner is made a Companion of Honour. * * Simon Halsey and Mark-Anthony Turnage are each made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. * June 17 - The Residentie Orchestra announces the appointment of Nicholas Collon as its co-principal conductor, effective 1 August 2016, for a minimum term of 3 years. * June 19 - Jongmin Park wins the Song Prize in the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World competition. * June 21 * * Nadine Koutcher wins the final, Main Prize of the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World competition. * * Amartuvshin Enkhbat is the winner of the Audience Prize of the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World competition.〔 * June 22 - The Berlin Philharmonic announces its election of Kirill Petrenko as its next chief conductor. * June 29 * * The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Edo de Waart as its next music director, effective in 2016. * * The Bayreuth Festival announces the appointment of Christian Thielemann as its music director. * * The European Union Youth Orchestra announces the appointments of Vasily Petrenko as its next chief conductor effective September 2015, and of Bernard Haitink as its conductor laureate with immediate effect. * June 30 - The Sinfonieorchester Basel announces the appointment of Ivor Bolton as its next chief conductor, as of the 2016-2017 season, with an initial contract of 4 years. * July 2 - The Beethoven Orchester Bonn announces the appointment of Christof Perick as its interim ''Generalmusikdirektor'' for the 2016-2017 season. * July 3 - The Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar announce the appointment of Kirill Karabits as its next ''Generalmusikdirector'' (GMD) and chief conductor, effective with the 2016-2017 season, with an initial contract of 3 years. * July 10 - English National Opera announces the departure of John Berry as artistic director. * August 6 - The Ames Stradivarius violin, stolen from Roman Totenberg in 1980, is returned to Totenberg's family in New York City. * August 13 * * The Lucerne Festival announces the appointment of Riccardo Chailly as the next music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, effective with the 2016 Lucerne Festival, with an initial contract of 5 years. * * The Metropolitan Opera announces that Mary Jo Heath is to be the new radio host for the Metropolitan Opera Saturday radio broadcasts, effective in September 2015. * August 17 - The Lahti Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Dima Slobodeniouk as its next principal conductor, effective in the autumn of 2016, with an initial contract of 3 seasons. * August 24 - The Theater Bonn announces the appointment of Jacques Lacombe as the new chief conductor of Bonn Opera, effective with the 2016-2017 season, with an initial contract of 2 years. * September 2 - La Monnaie announces the appointment of Alain Altinoglu as its next music director, effective January 2016. * September 3 - The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra announces that Riccardo Chailly is to conclude his tenure as ''Gewandhauskapellmeister'' in June 2016, four years ahead of their most recent contract agreement. * September 4 * * At a conference of the International Musicological Society in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Natalya Braginskaya announced the re-discovery of an early orchestral work of Igor Stravinsky, ''Pogrebal'naya Pesnya'' (''Funeral Song''), which had gone missing since its only performance in January 1909. * * The Lucerne Festival announces the appointments of Wolfgang Rihm as the new director of the Lucerne Festival Academy, and of Matthias Pintscher as principal conductor of the Lucerne Festival Academy. * September 7 - The Bamberg Symphony announces the appointment of Jakub Hrůša as its next chief conductor, as of the 2016-2017 season, with an initial contract of 5 seasons. * September 9 - The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra announces the appointment of Andris Nelsons as its 21st ''Gewandhauskapellmeister'', effective with the 2017-2018 season, with an initial contract of 5 seasons. * September 11: * * Arvo Pärt's 80th birthday is celebrated worldwide.〔("Arvo Pärt at 80: listen to five of his least, and best, known works", ''The Guardian'', 11 September 2015 ). Accessed 28 September 2015〕 * * The Zuger Sinfonietta announces the appointment of Daniel Huppert as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2016-2017 season.〔(Zuger Sinfonietta page on Daniel Huppert )〕 * September 13 - The Chineke! Orchestra, the first black and minority ethnic orchestra in Europe, gives its ensemble debut concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. * September 15 - The Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Stefan Sanderling as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2016-2017 season. * September 18 - The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Vladimir Jurowski as its next chief conductor. * September 21: * * English National Opera formalises the full appointments of Harry Brünjes as chairman, with immediate effect, and of Cressida Pollock as chief executive officer, for an additional 3 years. * * The Munich Chamber Orchestra announces the appointment of Clemens Schuldt as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2016-2017 season, with an initial contract of 3 years. * * The Dalasinfoniettan announces the appointment of Daniel Blendulf as its next chief conductor, with immediate effect, with an initial contract of 3 years. * September 22 - San Francisco Opera announces the appointment of Matthew Shivlock as its 7th general director, effective July 2016. * September 27 - The world premiere of the 8-hour version of ''Sleep'', composed by Max Richter in collaboration with David Eagleman, occurred at the Wellcome Collection and was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, the single longest musical composition ever broadcast live in the history of the BBC. * October 1: * * Gotham Chamber Opera announces immediate cessation of operations, because of a fiscal deficit that the company judged itself unable to redeem. * * The Memphis Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Robert Moody as its new principal conductor, effective with the 2016-2017 season, with an initial contract of 2 years. * * PIAS officially takes full control of the music assets of harmonia mundi. * October 6 - The Iceland Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Yan Pascal Tortelier as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2016-2017 season, with an initial contract of 3 years. * October 8 - The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin announces the appointment of Robin Ticciati as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2017-2018 season, with an initial contract of 5 years. * October 13 - The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra announces that Kirill Petrenko is formally to begin his tenure as its new chief conductor with the 2019-2020 season. * October 14 - Opera Lyra Ottawa announces immediate cessation of operations, citing insufficient revenue and funding. * October 23 - The Queensland Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Alondra de la Parra as its first-ever music director, effective in 2017, the first conductor ever to have the title of music director with an Australian orchestra, and the orchestra's first female conductor in a leadership post. * November 5 - The Royal Philharmonic Society announces Martha Argerich as the 101st recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal. * November 9 - Opera Theatre of Saint Louis announces that music director Stephen Lord is to stand down from the post after the 2017 season, and to take the title of music director emeritus. * November 11 - Orchestras Live announces the appointment of Sarah Derbyshire as its next chief executive. * November 16 - The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Xian Zhang as its 14th music director, as of the 2016-2017 season, with an initial contract of 4 years. * November 17 - Glyndebourne Festival Opera announces the appointment of Sebastian F. Schwarz as its next general director, effective in May 2016. * November 18 - The Three Choirs Festival announces the appointment of Alexis Paterson as its new chief executive, effective in January 2016. * November 24 - The Grawemeyer Foundation announces Hans Abrahamsen as the winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, for his song cycle ''let me tell you''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015 in classical music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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