The cello audition on Friday was won by Moritz Huemer, from one of Europe’s smallest sovereign states.
Huemer, 25, came through the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. His former Instagram comedy account – moritz_cello – caught the eye of some of the Berlin players, who contacted him to apply for audition. He will join the orchestra for a trial period in May.
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The Chinese violinist Luo Chaowen, 23, won first prize at South Korea’s Isangyun Competition last night, performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto. He’s studying at the Beijing central conservatory. Saxophonist Jason Xu, 19, a Chinese-Canadian student at the […]
Principal double-bass Edwin Barker will leave the Boston Symphony Orchestra next week after 48 years in the seat. His parting performance will be Serge Koussevitzky’s Double Bass Concerto this Friday at Tanglewood. Koussevitsky, Boston’s formative […]
In today’s budget statement in Cardiff there was a derisory increase of £1.5 million for the Arts Council of Wales. That will barely cover the rise in coffee prices. The chorus of Welsh National Opera […]
.png?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Letting in the Light: from Rameau's Pygmalion & Wagner's Parsifal to Christian Forshaw, Anna Semple and Schumann's Kerner Lieder at Temple Music")
