Harpist Anneleen Lenaerts, 36, applied for an opening at the suggestion of a friend, Xavier de Maistre, who left the Philharmonic for a solo cello career. She took a flight from Brussels just ...

Andrea Götsch was surprised when she won her audition in 2019 that led to membership in the Vienna Philharmonic. A male bastion from its founding in 1842 until 1997, the Vienna Philharmonic now ...