Janos Gereben

David Ramadanoff, music director of the Vallejo Symphony since 1983,

Nicholas McGegan, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale are on a big tour this summer, including performances of Handel's Acis and Galatea with the Mark Morris Dance Group at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival (Aug. 7-9 and 17), Handel's Teseo at the Tanglewood Festival (Aug.

Los Angeles composer Todd Lerew, 28, has won the 2014 National Composition Contest with his work

Slavyanka Chorus of San Francisco is the presenter, the Rachmaninov Festival Chorus of America is the founder of the International Russian Choral Music Festival, the third edition of which is taking place in San Francisco and Berkeley, Aug. 3-10.

Mirga Gražinyté-Tyla, 28, from Lithuania, has been named Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Phil

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