19 January: English Touring Opera announces that James Conway is to stand down as its artistic director at the close of 2022, and to serve in a part-time capacity in the post for the remainder of the calendar year.
8 February:
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Ryan Wigglesworth as its next chief conductor, effective September 2022.
The 2022 Brit Awards are the first to be held without gender-related categories.
Adele makes a rare live appearance at the 2022 Brit Awards.
9 February: The Barbican Centre announces the appointment of Claire Spencer as its first-ever chief executive officer, effective May 2022.
29 March: Concert for Ukraine, a two-hour fundraising event organised by ITV, Livewire Pictures, Global Radio and the Disasters Emergency Committee, takes place in Birmingham.
25 April: The Philharmonia Orchestra announces the appointment of Thorben Dittes as its next chief executive, effective 1 August 2022.
19 May: The Academy of St Martin in the Fields announces the appointment of Annie Lydford as its next chief executive, effective September 2022.
21 May: The first night of the new Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of The Wreckers takes place, the first opera by a female composer to be staged at Glyndebourne, and the first professional staging of the opera with its original French libretto.
23 May:
The BBC announces its new roster of New Generation Artists for the period 2022–2024:
Santiago Cañón-Valencia (cellist)
Ryan Corbett (accordionist)
Hugh Cutting (countertenor)
Leonkoro Quartet
Geneva Lewis (violinist)
Fergus McCreadie (jazz pianist)
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano)
The English Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Seb Lovell-Huckle as its next chief executive officer, effective 8 August 2022.
31 May The Association of British Orchestra announces that Mark Pemberton is to stand down as its chief executive at the end of September 2022.
Chi-chi Nwanoku is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Harry Bicket, Justin Hayward, and David Jackson are each made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Hugh Atkins (Tim Blacksmith), Sandra Colston, Julia Desbrulais, Beverley Humphreys, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Elaine Mitchener, and Bonnie Tyler are each made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
21 June: The Orlando Consort announces that it is to disband in June 2023.
24 June: Billie Eilish headlines the Pyramid stage at the 2022 Glastonbury Festival, the youngest headliner in Glastonbury's history.
25 June: Sir Paul McCartney headlines the Pyramid stage at the 2022 Glastonbury Festival, the oldest headliner in Glastonbury's history.
5 July:
Westminster Abbey announces the appointment of Andrew Nethsingha as its next organist and master of choristers, effective in 2023.
St. John's College, Cambridge announces that Andrew Nethsingha is to stand down as its director of music at the close of 2022.
27 July: Belfast Cathedral announces the disbandement of its cathedral choir and the elimination of the post of Director of Music, effective 1 September 2022.
9 August: The Royal Albert Hall announces that Craig Hassall is to stand down as its chief executive officer in early 2023.
7 September: Southbank Sinfonia at St John's Smith Square announces the departure today of Richard Heaton as its co-director.
8 September:
Opera North announces that Richard Mantle is to stand down as its general director at the end of 2023.
Following the death of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, the BBC Proms cancels the remaining three Proms of the 2022 season, including The Last Night, the first cancellation of The Last Night since 1944.
12 September: The BBC announces that Alan Davey is to stand down as controller of BBC Radio 3 in March 2023.
20 September: The Ulster Orchestra announces simultaneously the appointment of Auveen Sands as its next chief executive, the first woman named to the post, effective at the end of October 2022, and the elevation of Daniele Rustioni's title with the orchestra to music director with immediate effect.
9 October: Percussionist Jordan Ashman is named the 2022 BBC Young Musician of the Year.
18 October: Little Simz wins the 2022 Mercury Prize for her album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. The ceremony had previously been scheduled for 8 September but was suspended following the death of Queen Elizabeth.
22 December: Lambeth Council suspends the Brixton O2 Academy's licence following the deaths of two concertgoers during a crowd crush at the venue.
Classical Music
JOSEPH DAVIES
Parallax (for violin and orchestra)
SIMON HOLT
The Sower
HELEN GRIME
Trumpet Concerto: night-sky-blue
RICHARD BAKER
The Price of Curiosity
ALEX MILLS
Landsker
GRAHAM FITKIN
Bla, Bla, Bla
GAVIN HIGGINS (music) and FRANCESCA SIMON (text)
The Faerie Bride
CHARLOTTE BRAY
Forsaken
'The Earth Cried Out to the Sky' (settings of English translations of texts by BORYS HUMENYUK and OSTAP SLYVYNSKY)
CONOR MITCHELL
Look Both Ways (text excerpts by PETER PEARS and BENJAMIN BRITTEN)
CLAIRE VICTORIA ROBERTS
Like Ships Adrift
SALLY BEAMISH
Hive (concerto for harp and orchestra)
JULIAN ANDERSON
Symphony No. 2 (Prague Panoramas)
GAVIN HIGGINS
Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra
MATTHEW KANER (music) and SIMON ARMITAGE (text)
Pearl
ERROLYN WALLEN
Lady Super Spy Adventurer
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
This New Noise
JUDITH WEIR
'Like as the hart'
Sir JAMES MacMILLAN
'Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?'
Opera
TOM COULT and ALICE BIRCH
Violet
WILL TODD (composer), DAVID POUNTNEY, SARAH WOODS, EDSON BURTON, MILES CHAMBERS, ERIC NGALLE CHARLES, SHREYA SEN-HANDLEY (librettists)
Migrations
LAURA BOWLER and LAURA LOMAS
The Blue Woman
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