Baltimore and Minnesota Have New Music Directors

Big news from the big cities:

• Jonathon Heyward becomes music director of the Baltimore Symphony, succeeding Marin Alsop. Baltimore is not in great shape; they've had terrible management and terrible financial problems, although they've also hired Mark Hanson, who is known to be competent.
• Thomas Søndergård becomes music director of the Minnesota Orchestra, succeeding Osmo Vänskä. (The NY Times can manage the umlauts in Vänskä, but not the diacriticals in Søndergård. C'mon, you can do better than that.) Two interesting things about Søndergård: he was a timpanist, unusual among conductors, who tend to be pianists; he married his partner, a baritone, less than two weeks ago. Me, I'm wondering whether he was worried that Obergefell might be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, given Justice Thomas's threat in Dobbs.

Current updates, very recent developments or stuff I missed previously:

• Klaus Mäkelä will be "artistic partner" of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra starting with 2022-23, then becomes their chief conductor in 2027.
• Krzysztof Urbański completed his tenure at the Indianapolis Symphony at the end of the 2020-21 season. He does not currently hold a music directorship. Inquiring minds are curious about why this is, given his immense abilities.
• No successor to Urbański has been named at Indianapolis. Jun Markel is their artistic advisor.
• Alasdair Neale leaves the Marin Symphony at the end of the 2022-23 season.
• Currently, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra is seeking a music director to succeed Ben Simon. Simon will conduct concerts in October and December/January, while candidates to succeed him will each lead a rehearsal / performance day in September, essentially an audition day. They are Cosette Justo Valdes, Ming Luke, Christine Brandes, and Chad Goodman. One of them will succeed Simon after his last concert and lead the rest of the 2022-23 season. Further details on SFCO's web site.
• Daniela Candillari named principal conductor of OTSL.

Comparatively recent news:

• Thomas Dausgaard left the Seattle Symphony, effective January, 2022.
• Susanna Mälkki to leave the Helsinki Philharmonic at the end of her current contract, at the end of the 2022-23 season. She is widely considering a candidate for the NY Philharmonic opening created by Jaap van Zweden's depature. For that matter, she is the principal guest conductor of the LA Philharmonic and considered a candidate to succeed Gustavo Dudamel if he leaves LA. Article at the Times about her. (Mälkki was my first choice to succeed MTT at SFS, because as everyone knew, until they didn't, that Esa-Pekka Salonen was not available.)
• James Gaffigan appointed Music Director of the Komische Oper in Berlin, succeeding Henrik Nanasi, who left several years ago. 
• Nathalie Stutzmann appointed to succeed Robert Spano at the Atlanta Symphony next season (2022-23).
• Eric Jacobsen is the new music director of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
• Andrés Orozco-Estrada is now music director of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (not to be confused with the Vienna Philhamonic).
• Garry Walker: now full-time music director of Opera North
• Jun Markl: music director of the Malaysian Philharmonic
• Juanjo Mena: music director of the Cincinnati May Festival
• Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: James Conlon is artistic advisor, presumably until a successor to Marin Alsop is named.
• Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Ivan Fischer is now 'honorary guest conductor' (wonder if they now wish that they'd chosen him as chief conductor then, even though they probably really wanted Andris Nelsons at the time, but couldn't get him)
• Royal Stockholm Philharmonic: Ryan Bancroft is chief conductor designate. He starts in 2023-24.
• Anja Bihlmaier is the new chief conductor of the Residentie Orchestra, The Hague.
• Dalia Stasevska is the new chief conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra.

Open positions:

• Sarasota Orchestra, following the death of Bramwell Tovey
• Seattle Symphony: open right now (January, 2022)
• Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra: open in 2024
• Staatskapelle Dresden: open in 2024
• New York Philharmonic, when Jaap van Zweden leaves in 2024.
• Hong Kong Philharmonic, when Jaap van Zweden leaves in 2024.
• Oakland Symphony, owing to the death of Michael Morgan in August, 2021.
• Royal Opera, Covent Garden, when Sir Antonio Pappano leaves for the LSO in September, 2024.
• Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra following the firing of Daniele Gatti
• Opera Theatre of Saint Louis: Stephen Lord resigned following accusations of sexual harassment. OTSL has not named a new music director.
• Teatro Regio Turin: Open now with departure of Gianandrea Noseda. the Teatro Regional's has not named a new music director.
• Minnesota Opera: Michael Christie has left. MO has not named a new music director. 
• Virginia Symphony: JoAnn Falletta is now laureate, but no successor has been named.
• Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
• Minnesota Orchestra, when Osmo Vänskä leaves in 2022.
• San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, at the end of 2022-23.
• Marin Symphony, at the end of 2022-23.

Conductors looking for jobs (that is, as of the near future, or now, they do not have a posting):

• Osmo Vänskä
• Alasdair Neale
• Ben Simon
• Susanna Mälkki, who leaves the Helsinki Philharmonic at the end of 2023-24
• Jaap van Zweden, who leaves the NY Phil at the end of 2023-24
• MGT (apparently does not want a full-time job, as of early 2022)
• Krzysztof Urbański
• Miguel Harth-Bedoya
• Lionel Bringuier
• Ludovic Morlot
• Sian Edwards
• Ingo Metzmacher
• Jac van Steen
• Mark Wigglesworth
• David Robertson
• Peter Oundjian
• Philippe Auguin
• Kwame Ryan
• Ilan Volkov
• Aleksandr Markovic
• Lothar Koenigs
• Henrik Nanasi

And closed:

• Baltimore Symphony, with the appointment of Jonathon Hayward. 
• Michigan Opera Theater: new principal conductor is Daniela Candillari.
• Teatro Comunale, Bologna: Oksana Lyniv becomes music director.
• Sarasota Orchestra: Bramwell Tovey becomes MD in 2022-23.
• Atlanta Symphony: Nathalie Stufzmann to succeed Robert Spano in 2022-23.
• Carlos Kalmar is now Director of Orchestral and Conducting Programs and Principal Conductor of the Cleveland Institute of Musicas well as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. 
• Houston Synphony: Juraj Valčuha to succeed Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
• Opera de Paris: Gustavo Dudamel succeeds Philippe Jordan.
• Melbourne Symphony: Jaime Martin becomes chief conductor in 2022. Sir Andrew Davis left at the end of 2019. 
• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: Kazuki Yamada replaces MGT when she leaves at the end of 2021-22
• London Symphony Orchestra: Sir Antonio Pappano becomes Chief Conductor Designate in September, 2023, Chief Conductor the following year.
• Fort Worth Symphony: Robert Spano to succeed Miguel Harth-Bedoya.
• Oregon Symphony: David Danzmayr succeeds Carlos Kalmar at the beginning of the 2021-22 season.
• Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Maxim Emelyanychev has succeeded Robin Ticciati
• Orchestre de Paris: Klaus Mäkelä to succeed Daniel Harding
• Montreal Symphony Orchestra: Rafael Payare has succeeded Kent Nagano.
• Richmond Symphony: Valentina Peleggi succeeds Steven Smith.
• Singapore Symphony: Hans Graf succeeded Lan Shui.
• BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Ryan Bancroft succeeded Thomas Søndergård
• BRSO hires Sir Simon Rattle to succeed the late Mariss Jansons, effective 2023.