2022 in classical music

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## Events

* 1 January – The Vienna Philharmonic performs its annual *Neujahrskonzert*, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, with a live audience for the first time since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with Eva Teimel as the presenter for the ORF radio transmission of the concert, the first female radio presenter for ORF in the history of the concert.
* 4 January – The Komische Oper Berlin announces the appointment of James Gaffigan as its next music director, effective with the 2023-2024 season, with an initial contract of 4 years.
* 7 January
	+ Thomas Dausgaard resigns as music director of the Seattle Symphony, via e-mail, with immediate effect.
	+ Elina Vähälä, the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä give the first-ever live performance in North America of the original 1904 version of the Violin Concerto of Jean Sibelius. The same artists reprised the work the next evening, 8 January 2022.
* 12 January – The Toronto Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Mark Williams as its next chief executive officer, effective April 2022.
* 18 January – In Milan, the first night of the new La Scala production of Bellini's *I Capuleti e i Montecchi* takes place, conducted by Speranza Scappucci, the first female Italian conductor ever to conduct a production at La Scala.
* 19 January
	+ At the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 'Kapsalon Theater' ('Hair Salon Theatre'), a piece of performance art, takes place with hairdressers serving patrons in the presence of performing musicians from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, in protest at the Dutch government's then-most recent restrictions on concerts with live audiences in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
	+ 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.
	+ The Colorado Springs Philharmonic announces that Josep Caballé Domenech is to conclude his tenure as its music director at the close of the 2022-2023 season.
* 25 January – The Landestheater Detmold announces the appointment of Per-Otto Johansson as its next Generalmusikdirektor, effective with the 2022-2023 season, with an initial contract of 4 years.
* 1 February
	+ The Royal Danish Orchestra announces the appointment of Marie Jacquot as its next music director, the first female conductor ever named to the post, effective with the 2024-2025 season, with an initial contract of 5 years.
	+ Norwegian National Opera and Ballet announces the appointment of Edward Gardner as its artistic advisor, with immediate effect, and as its next music director, effective 1 August 2024.
	+ Opera Theatre of Saint Louis announces the appointment of Daniela Candillari as its principal conductor, the first female conductor ever named to the post, with an initial contract of 3 years.
	+ The Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) awards Jordi Savall honorary membership in the RPS, at his concert appearance at Wigmore Hall.
* 8 February – The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Ryan Wigglesworth as its next chief conductor, effective September 2022.
* 9 February – The Barbican Centre announces the appointment of Claire Spencer as its first-ever chief executive officer, effective May 2022.
* 12 February – The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century announces the appointment of Kate Rockett as its next general director, effective 1 September 2022. In parallel, Sieuwert Verster is to stand down as the orchestras general director.
* 13 February – Never produced during the creators' lifetimes, the first performance of the opera *Grete Minde*, with music by Eugen Engel and libretto by Hans Bodenstedt, takes place at the Theater Magdeburg, 79 years after the March 1943 death of the composer in Sobibor, following preparation of a complete performing score from the surviving papers.
* 15 February
	+ Central City Opera announces the appointment of Pamela A. Pantos as its new president and chief executive officer, effective 28 February 2022.
	+ The Colorado Symphony announces the appointment of Peter Oundjian as its principal conductor.
* 23 February – The North Carolina Symphony announces the appointment of Carlos Miguel Prieto as its next music director, effective with the 2023-2024 season, with an initial contrac of 4 years.
* 28 February – The Edinburgh International Festival announces the resignation of Valery Gergiev as its honorary president, in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
* 1 March
	+ The Edinburgh International Festival announces the appointment of Nicola Benedetti as its next festival director, the first woman and the first Scot to hold the post, effective 1 October 2022.
	+ Munich mayor Dieter Reiter announces the dismissal of Valery Gergiev as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, with immediate effect, after his request to Gergiev to denounce the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine received no response.
	+ The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra announces the termination of its artistic relationship with Valery Gergiev, rescinding his title of eredirigent (honorary conductor) and discontinuing its Gergiev Festival.
* 2 March
	+ Vasily Petrenko announces a suspension of his conducting work in Russia, including his duties with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
	+ The New World Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas jointly announce that Thomas is to stand down as the organisations artistic director, effective 1 June 2022, in the wake of Thomas public disclosure of his cancer condition.
* 7 March – Thomas Sanderling resigns as principal conductor of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, with immediate effect, in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
* 10 March – The Teatro Carlo Felice announces the appointment of Riccardo Minasi as its next music director, for the period from 2022 to 2025.
* 14 March – Trinity Wall Street dismisses Julian Wachner as its director of music, with immediate effect, following its suspension of Wachner on 12 March 2022 after allegations against him of sexual misconduct.
* 23 March – The BBC announces that Paul Hughes is to stand down as director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus, and the BBC Singers, effective 15 July 2022.
* 29 March – The Royal Albert Hall announces the appointment of four new associate artists, including Jess Gillam and Anna Lapwood.
* 31 March – English Touring Opera announces the appointment of Robin Norton-Hale as its next general director, effective July 2022.
* 5 April
	+ The Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra announces that Santtu-Matias Rouvali is to conclude his tenure as chief conductor of the orchesra at the close of the 2022-2023 season.
	+ The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Mark C. Hanson as its next president and chief executive officer, effective 21 April 2022.
* 8 April – The International Contemporary Ensemble announces the appointment of George E. Lewis as its next artistic director, effective April 2022.
* 11 April – The Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias announces the appointment of Nuno Coehlo as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2022-2023 season, with an initial contract of 3 years.
* 12 April
	+ The Melbourne Chamber Orchestra announces the appointment of Sophie Rowell as its next artistic director, effective in 2023.
	+ The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra announces the appointment of Jukka-Pekka Saraste as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2023-2024 season, with an initial contract of 3 years.
	+ Andrés Orozco-Estrada resigns as chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony, with immediate effect.
	+ The Rheingau Musik Festival announces Herbert Blomstedt as the recipient of the Rheingau Musik Preis 2022.
* 15 April – The San Antonio Symphony announces the revocation of Sebastian Lang-Lessing's status as its music director emeritus, with immediate effect.
* 25 April
	+ The Philharmonia Orchestra announces the appointment of Thorben Dittes as its next chief executive, effective 1 August 2022.
	+ Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra announces that Elisa Citterio no longer holds the post of its music director.
* 27 April – The Queensland Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Yarmila Alfonzetti as its next chief executive, effective 11 July 2022.
* 4 May – The Taipei Chinese Orchestra announces the appointment of Yu-an Chang as its new principal conductor, with immediate effect.
* 6 May
	+ The Staatskapelle Halle announces the appointment of Fabrice Bollon as its next *Generalmusikdirektor* (GMD), effective with the 2022-2023 season, with an initial contract of 5 years.
	+ The Landestheater Schleswig-Holstein announces the resignation of Kimbo Ishii as its GMD, with immediate effect.
* 9 May – The San Francisco Conservatory of Music announces its purchase of the Pentatone record label.
* 10 May – The Juilliard String Quartet announces the appointment of Molly Carr as its new violist.
* 11 May – Opera Saratoga announces that Lawrence Edelson is to stand down as its artistic and general director at the end of July 2022.
* 12 May
	+ The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Tarmo Peltokoski as its next music director and artistic director, effective with the 2022-2023 season.
	+ The Berlin State Opera announces the appointment of Elisabeth Sobotka as its new *Indentantin*, effective September 2024.
* 17 May – The Birgit Nilsson Foundation announces Yo-Yo Ma as the recipient of the 2022 Birgit Nilsson Prize, the first instrumentalist ever to receive this award.
* 18 May – The Japan Philharmonic Orchestra announces the appointment of Wong Kah Chun as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2023-2024 season, with an initial contract of 5 years.
* 19 May – The Academy of St Martin in the Fields announces the appointment of Annie Lydford as its next chief executive, effective September 2022.
* 20 May – The Teatro Colón announces the appointment of Jan Lathan-Koenig as its next music director, effective in 2023.
* 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.
* 25 May – The Glimmerglass Festival announces the appointment of Robert Ainsley as its next artistic director and general director.
* 27 May – The Queensland Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Umberto Clerici as its next chief conductor, effective 1 January 2023, with an initial contract of three years.
* 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.
* 1 June – Queen's Birthday Honours (Platinum Jubilee)
	+ Stephen Hough is made a Knight Bachelor.
	+ Chi-chi Nwanoku is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
	+ Harry Bicket and David Jackson are each made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
	+ Julia Desbrulais and Elizabeth Llewellyn are each made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
* 3 June – The inaugural International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam awards its first prize to British conductor Bertie Baigent.
* 5 June – Hayoung Choi is announced as the winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition for cello, in Brussels.
* 10 June – The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra announces the appointment of Klaus Mäkelä as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2027-2028 season, with an initial contract of 5 years. Mäkelä is scheduled to take the title of artistic partner for the period 2022-2027.
* 16 June – The board of directors of the San Antonio Symphony announces its decision to file for bankruptcy and to dissolve the organisation.
* 17 June – The New York Philharmonic simultaneously announces the scheduled departure of Deborah Borda as its president and chief executive officer (CEO), effective 30 June 2023, and the appointment of Gary Ginstling as its next president and CEO, effective 1 July 2023.
* 20 June – McGill University announces the closure of the McGill Conservatory of Music at the end of the summer of 2022.
* 21 June
	+ The Orlando Consort announces that it is to disband in June 2023.
	+ The Staatskapelle Dresden announces its election of Daniele Gatti as its next chief conductor, effective in 2024.
* 28 June – Opera Rara gives the first known performance of *Il Proscritto* by Saverio Mercadante since its 1842 premiere.
* 29 June
	+ Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra announces the departure of Carol Kehoe as its executive director.
	+ François Girard is appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
* 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.
* 11 July – The Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra announces the appointment of Mélisse Brunet as its next music director, the first female conductor ever named to the post, effective with the 2022-2023 season, with an initial contract of 5 years.
* 12 July – The Kyoto Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Nodoka Okisawa as its next music director, the first female conductor ever named to the post, effective iin March 2023 season, with an initial contract of 3 years.
* 14 July – The Teatro Real announces the appointment of Gustavo Gimeno as its next music director, effective with the 2025-2026 season, with an initial contract of 5 years.
* 21 July
	+ The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Jonathon Heyward as its next music director, the first conductor of colour ever named to the post, effective with the 2023-2024 season, with an initial contract of 5 seasons.
	+ Tania León is announced as one of the laureates of the 45th Kennedy Center Honors.
* 24 July – Simon Estes sings his final opera performance, in the Des Moines Metro Opera production of *Porgy and Bess*, as 'Lawyer' Frazier.
* 28 July
	+ The Minnesota Orchestra announces the appointment of Thomas Søndergård as its next music director, effective with the 2023-2024 season, with an initial contract of 5 seasons.
	+ The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra gives its first-ever concert at the Teatr Wielki-Polish National Opera in Warsaw, conducted by co-founder Keri-Lynn Wilson.
* 3 August – The Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz announces the appointment of Gabriel Venzago as its next music director, effective 1 January 2023.

## New works

* Unsuk Chin – *Scherben der Stille* (*Shards of Silence*), for violin and orchestra
* Philip Glass – Symphony No. 13
* HK Gruber – *Short Stories from the Vienna Woods* (selections)
* Sauli Zinovjev – Piano Concerto
* Erika Fox – *David spielt vor Saul* (Piano Concerto)
* Mason Bates – Piano Concerto
* Joseph Davies – *Parallax* (for violin and orchestra)
* Carlos Izcaray – *Under the Shadows, An Immigrant's Journey*
* Simon Holt – *The Sower*
* Tyshawn Sorey – *Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)*
* Derrick Skye – *As Water, Freedom*
* Tyler White – *The Four Elements*
* Mason Bates – *Rhapsody of Steve Jobs*
* Jeff Beal – *The Great Circle*
* Jimmy López Bellido – Piano Concerto
* Gabriela Ortiz – *Clara*
* Stacy Garrop – *Goddess Triptych*
* Ville Raasakka – *The Harvest*
* Andreia Pinto Correia – *Os pássaros da noite* (*The Birds of Night*)
* Christopher Sainsbury – *In the beginning, fun*
* Katherine Balch – *Illuminate*
* Zosha Di Castri – *In the half-light*
* Joel Järventausta – *Sunfall*
* Helen Grime – Trumpet Concerto: *night-sky-blue*
* John Corigliano – *Triathlon*, Concerto for Saxophonist and Orchestra
* Elliot Gyger – *Concerto for Orchestra*
* Joe Chindamo – *Ligeia* (trombone concerto)
* Elena Kats-Chernin – *Red Centre Suite*
* Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor – *Bullen Road 2016*
* Richard Baker – *The Price of Curiosity*
* Alex Mills – *Landsker*
* Jaakko Kuusisto – Symphony, Op. 39 (completed by Pekka Kuusisto)
* Sarah Kirkland Snider – *Forward Into Light* (premiere delayed from 2020)
* 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)
* Carl Vine – *Concord* (clarinet quintet)
* Conor Mitchell – *Look Both Ways* (text excerpts by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten)
* Claire Victoria Roberts – *Like Ships Adrift*
* Hildur Guðnadóttir – *The Fact of the Matter*
* Sally Beamish – *Hive* (concerto for harp and orchestra)
* Marco-Adrián Ramos – *Woven clay for the death of Mario Lavista* (*Quartet II*)
* Benjamin Scheer – *The Funambulist's Double*
* Detlev Glanert – String Quartet No. 3
* Julian Anderson – Symphony No. 2 (*Prague Panoramas*)
* Gavin Higgins – *Concerto Grosso* for Brass Band and Orchestra
* Matthew Kaner (music) and Simon Armitage (text) – *Pearl*
* Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir – *ARCHORA*

## New operas

* Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie – *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis*
* Mats Larsson Gothe and Susanne Marko – *Löftet* (*The Promise*)
* Rose Hall and Katie Colombus – *It's the Little Things*
* Anna Braithwaite and Kerry Priest – *The Hardest Journey*
* Victoria Bernath and Teresa Howard – *Mini-Break*
* Joanna Taylor and Kerry Priest – *I Just Wanna Be (in Center Parcs)*
* Sarah Lianne Lewis and Sophia Chapadjiev – *The Parting Place*
* Laura Reid and Oge Nwosu – *Detritus*
* Georgia Barnes and Olivia Bell – *Everything you carry*
* Du Yun and Michael Joseph McQuilken – *In Our Daughter's Eyes*
* Thierry Escaich and Atiq Rahimi – *Shirine* (premiere delayed from 2020)
* Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels – *Omar*
* Tom Coult and Alice Birch – *Violet*
* Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman – *Awakenings* (premiere delayed from 2020)
* Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie – *Harvey Milk* (revised 2-act version)
* Will Todd (music), David Pountney, Sarah Woods, Edson Burton, Miles Chambers, Eric Ngalle Charles, Shreya Sen-Handley (librettists) – *Migrations*
* Laura Bowler and Laura Lomas – *The Blue Woman*
* Kristin Kuster and Mark Campbell – *A Thousand Acres*
* Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang – *M. Butterfly* (premiere delayed from 2020)

## Albums

* Christopher Gunning – Symphony No. 5, String Quartet No. 1 (first recordings)
* Gerald Barry – *Alice's Adventures Under Ground* (first recording)
* Mieczysław Weinberg – *The Passenger* (first commercial CD recording)
* Huang Ruo – *A Dust in Time* (first recording)
* Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano) and Kirill Kuzmin (piano) – *how do i find you* (first recordings), with songs by:
	+ Caroline Shaw
	+ Kamala Sankaram (text by Mark Campbell)
	+ Matt Boehler (text by Todd Boss)
	+ Missy Mazzoli (text by Royce Vavrek)
	+ John Glover (text by Kelley Rourke)
	+ Rene Orth (text by Colleen Murphy)
	+ Christopher Cerrone (text by John K. Samson)
	+ Gabriel Kahane
	+ Andrew Marshall (text by Todd Boss)
	+ Huang Ruo (text by David Henry Hwang)
	+ Timo Andres (text by Lola Ridge)
	+ Nico Muhly (text by Thomas Traherne)
	+ Hilary Purrington (text by Mark Campbell)
	+ Lembit Beecher (text by Liza Balkan)
	+ Frances Pollock (text by Emily Roller)
	+ Joel Thompson (text by Gene Scheer)
	+ Jimmy López Bellido (text by Mark Campbell)
* George Walker – Five Piano Sonatas (first integral recording; Steven Beck, piano)
* La Monte Young – Trio for Strings (first authorized recording)
* Joseph Phibbs and Laurie Slade – *Juliana* (first recording)

## Deaths

* 1 January – Richard Freed, American music critic, radio broadcaster and arts administrator, 93
* 2 January – András Ágoston, Hungarian violinist and past leader of the Philharmonia Hungarica, 74
* 5 January – Dale Clevenger, American orchestral French horn player and past principal French horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 81
* 9 January
	+ Maria Ewing, American soprano, 71
	+ James Maraniss, American literary scholar and academic, and librettist for the opera *Life Is a Dream (opera)*, 76
* 10 January – Francis Jackson, British organist and composer, 104
* 12 January – Everett Lee, American conductor, 105
* 13 January – Terry Teachout, American critic, playwright and opera librettist, 65
* 14 January – Angelo Gilardino, Italian composer, guitarist and musicologist, 80
* 16 January – Lucy Rowan Mann, American music administrator, 100 (from COVID-19)
* 18 January
	+ Paavo Heininen, Finnish composer, 84
	+ Rafael Rojas, Mexican tenor, 59
	+ Roger Tapping, British violist resident in the US and past violist of the Takács Quartet, 61
* 19 January – Nigel Rogers, British tenor and early music specialist, 86
* 20 January
	+ Juro Mětšk, Serbian composer, 67
	+ Karolos Trikolidis, Greek-Austrian conductor, 74
* 27 January
	+ Alain Bancquart, French composer and conductor, 87
	+ Georg Christoph Biller, German choral conductor, composer, baritone and pedagogue, 66
* 1 February – Leslie Parnas, American cellist, 90
* 6 February
	+ Hans Neuenfels, German theatre and opera director, and opera librettist, 80 (from COVID-19)
	+ George Crumb, American composer, 92
* 9 February – Joseph Horovitz, Austria-born British composer, 95
* 10 February – Rolf Wollrad, German bass and opera administrator, 84
* 12 February – William Kraft, American composer, percussionist, and conductor, 98
* 14 February – Bernard Jacobson, UK-born arts administrator, author and critic based in the USA, 85
* 19 February – Nigel Butterley, Australian composer 86
* 21 February – Julie Ann Giacobassi, American orchestral English horn player, 72
* 23 February
	+ Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Brazilian guitarist, 77
	+ Jaakko Kuusisto, Finnish composer, 48
* 4 March – Iwan Edwards, Welsh-born choral conductor resident in Canada, 84
* 7 March – Jan Welmers, Dutch organist and composer, 84
* 8 March – René Clemencic, Austrian composer, conductor and early music instrumentalist, 94
* 10 March – Annerose Schmidt, German pianist and pedagogue, 85
* 13 March – Li Guangxi, Chinese tenor, 92
* 18 March – Bernabé Martí, Spanish tenor, 93
* 19 March – Michail Jurowski, Russian conductor, 77
* 20 March – Lyell Cresswell, New Zealand-born composer resident in the UK, 77
* 25 March – Hans Priem, German orchestral violist, 95
* 27 March – Karl Korte, American composer, 91
* 28 March
	+ Franz Mohr, German-born American piano technician, 94
	+ Anne Parsons, American orchestra administrator, 64
* 29 March
	+ Paul Goodchild, Australian orchestral trumpeter, 61
	+ Jonathan Pegis, American orchestral cellist, 61
* 31 March – Joseph Kalichstein, Israel-born American pianist, 76
* 5 April – Boris Brott, Canadian conductor, 78
* 11 April – Philippe Boesmans, Belgian composer, 85
* 17 April – Radu Lupu, Romanian pianist, 76
* 18 April
	+ Sir Harrison Birtwistle, British composer, 87
	+ Janez Matičič, Slovenian composer and pianist, 95
	+ Michael Jinbo, American conductor and music school administrator, 60
* 19 April – Nicholas Angelich, USA-born pianist resident in France, 51
* 29 April
	+ Plato Karayanis, American baritone and arts administrator, 93
	+ Donald Peck, American orchestral flutist, 92
* 30 April
	+ Meinard Kraak, Dutch baritone, 86
	+ Max Riebl, Australian countertenor, 30
* 9 May – Minoru Nojima, Japanese pianist, 76
* 11 May – Alexander Toradze, Russian pianist, 69
* 12 May – William Bennett, British flautist, 86
* 13 May
	+ Teresa Berganza, Spanish mezzo-soprano and contralto, 89
	+ Simon Preston, British organist and choirmaster, 83
* 18 May – Anne Howells, British mezzo-soprano, 81
* 31 May – Ingram Marshall, American composer, 80
* 3 June – Peter Barber, New Zealander orchestral violist, 64
* 8 June – David Lloyd-Jones, British conductor and co-founder of Opera North, 87
* 20 June – Kurt Equiluz, Austrian tenor, 93
* 1 July – Richard Taruskin, American musicologist, 77
* 2 July – Peter Brook, British theatre and opera director, 97
* 3 July – Joseph Banowitz, American pianist, pedagogue, writer and scholar, 87
* 5 July – Alfred Koerppen, German composer, organist and pedagogue, 95
* 10 July – Andrew Ball, British pianist, 72
* 12 July
	+ Bramwell Tovey, British conductor and composer, 69
	+ Jan Wijn, Dutch pianist, 88
* 20 July
	+ Alice Harnoncourt, Austrian period-instrument violinist and co-founder of the Concentus Musicus Wien, 91
	+ Jeroen van Riel, Dutch recording executive, 52
* 22 July – Stefan Soltesz, Hungarian conductor active in Austria and Germany, 73
* 23 July – Marie Leonhardt, Swiss period-instrument violinist and co-founder of the Leonhardt Consort, 93
* 25 July – Martin How, British composer and organist, 91
* 8 August – Larry Rachleff, American conductor and pedagogue, 67

## Major awards

* 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Music: Raven Chacon – *Voiceless Mass*

### Grammy Awards

* Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Beethoven: Cello Sonatas – "Hope Amid Tears"; Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax (Sony Classical)
* Best Choral Performance: Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (*Symphony of A Thousand*); Leah Crocetto, Mihoko Fujimura, Ryan McKinny, Erin Morley, Tamara Mumford, Simon O'Neill, Morris Robinson, Tamara Wilson; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Children's Chorus, Los Angeles Master Chorale, National Children's Chorus and Pacific Chorale; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Grant Gershon, Robert Istad, Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, and Luke McEndarfer, chorus masters (Deutsche Grammophon)
* Best Classical Compendium: "Women Warriors – The Voices of Change" – Lolita Ritmanis, Miriam Cutler, Penka Kouneva, Starr Parodi, Sharon Farber, Nathalie Bonin, Anne-Kathrin Dern; Amy Andersson, conductor; Amy Andersson, Mark Mattson, and Lolita Ritmanis, producers
* Best Classical Instrumental Solo: *Alone Together* (works by Wang Lu, Joungbum Lee, Morgan Guerin, Vijay Iyer, Sarah Gibson, Darian Donovan Thomas, Tonia Ko, Thomas Kotcheff, Nina C. Young, Adeliia Faizullina, Jen Shyu, Inti Figgis-Vizueta, Ellen Reid; Rajna Swaminathan, Anthony Cheung, Tomás Gueglio-Saccone, Anjna Swaminathan, Layale Chaker, David Serkin Ludwig, Elizabeth Younan, Rafiq Bhatia, Hanna Benn, Missy Mazzoli, Cassie Wieland, Katherine Balch, Andrew Norman, Angélica Negrón, Tania León, Caroline Davis, Nina Shekhar, Qasim Naqvi, Shayna Dunkelman, Du Yun, George Lewis, Lester St. Louis, Sugar Vendil, Patrick Castillo, Vincent Calianno, Kati Agócs); Jennifer Koh (Çedille Records)
* Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Caroline Shaw: "Narrow Sea"; Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish, and So Percussion) (Nonesuch Records)
* Best Classical Solo Vocal Album: *Mythologies*; Sangeeta Kaur, Hila Plitmann; Danaë Xanthe Vlasse
* Best Opera Recording: Philip Glass – *Akhnaten*; J'Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Zachary James, Dísella Lárusdóttir; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and The Metropolitan Opera Chorus; Karen Kamensek, conductor; David Frost, producer (Metropolitan Opera)
* Best Engineered Album, Classical: Chanticleer Sings Christmas; Leslie Ann Jones, engineer; Michael Romanowski, mastering engineer
* Best Orchestral Performance: Florence Price – Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3; The Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon)
* Producer of the Year, Classical: Judith Sherman

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2. ↑ "Corona bei Neujahrskonzert – ORF musste improvisieren". *Heute*. 1 January 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
3. ↑ "James Gaffigan zum Generalmusikdirektor ernannt, Erina Yashima wird Erste Kapellmeisterin" (Press release). Komische Oper Berlin. 4 January 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
4. ↑ "Thomas Dausgaard and the Seattle Symphony announce closure of his tenure as music director" (Press release). Seattle Symphony. 7 January 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
5. ↑ Rob Hubbard (8 January 2022). "Minnesota Orchestra's Sibelius Festival provides a star turn for another Finn". *Minneapolis Star-Tribune*. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
6. ↑ "Mark Williams Announced as New CEO of Toronto Symphony Orchestra" (Press release). Toronto Symphony Orchestra. 12 January 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
7. ↑ Barbara Berti (22 January 2022). "Speranza Scappucci, prima direttrice donna alla Scala: "La musica non è una questione di genere"". *La Nazione*. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
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