The death has been communicated of Barbara Kolb, a prominent American modernist. She was among the first Americans to work with Pierre Boulez at his IRCAM institute in Paris.
The Trinidadian singer Jeanine de Bique has been receiving some critical heat in Paris over her French diction as Telaire in Rameau’s Telaire Castor et Pollux at the Opéra. She’s not going to take that. […]
The cello section of the 24th International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition has been won by Víctor García García, performing on a Baroque cello. Garcia, 30, takes home 10,000 Euros and the promise of future solo […]
Julia Wolfe appointed the Orchestra’s first Composer in Residence, with four works featured in the season, including a newly commissioned symphonic arrangement of her Pulitzer-winning Anthracite Fields Focus on opera, with Principal Guest Conductor Anja Bihlmaier […]