The Eugene Symphony has named Alex Prior as its music director, starting in October. Prior, 32, previously had one term as music director in Edmonton, Canada, and another in Erfurt, Germany. He said: ‘I was […]
Esther Abrami The French violinist Esther Abrami, who studied at Chetham’s School of Music, the Royal College of Music and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, is described as something of a ‘media sensation’: she has over 400,000 […]
The young German conductor Christian Blex has been awarded the coveted Karajan prize at the Salzburg festival. Blex, a former assistant to Kirill Pdetrenko at the Berlin Philharmonic, is presently assistant conductor of the Gustav […]