The award-winning English cellist Richard Harwood is playing out his final month in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra before making a change of direction. He writes:
A couple of months ago, I reached the sad decision to leave this wonderful family of friends and colleagues in order to focus on a range of other musical activities. It’s been a wonderful 7 years.
I look forward to our tour of China with Vasily Petrenko next week where I also get the opportunity to be soloist for two of the nights in Beijing and Shanghai performing Tan Dun’s Suite from “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”.
Several audeience members have told us that US vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha were booed as they took seats last night at a National Symphony Orchestra concert at the Kennedy Center. One person […]
Tomorrow, on the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, the Munich Philharmonic will play a concert with 50 musicians from the Israel Philharmonic. Lahav Shani will conduct Tzvi Avni’s ‘Prayer’ for […]
There is an open call for composers and performers for a residency programme for 2025. The precept.concept.percept residency focuses on a collaborative creative process where performers and composers work closely together to prepare for a performance at […]