Catherine Womack

The conductor’s podium at the Meyerson Symphony Center is hot right now. Just two months after Jaap van Zweden was named the next music director of the New York Philharmonic, the Solti Foundation U.S. announced that Karina Canellakis, the Dallas Symphony’s quickly rising assistant conductor, is the recipient of this...

Bryce Dessner is probably best known for his role as guitarist in the baritone-driven indie rock band The National, but he is equally accomplished as a classical composer. “A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I’m in a rock band,” he says, speaking...