The Dover Quartet, based at Curtis, just saw violist Julianne Lee walk out after less than a year, reverting to her old orchestra job.
Now violinist Joel Link, ‘cannot perform due to unforeseen circumstances’.
He’s replaced on the current tour by Jonathan Ong, first violinist of the Verona Quartet.
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The US-Italian conductor Carlos Ponti jr. has converted to Orthodox Christianity in order to marry Mariam Sharmanashvili, a zumba teacher, in Tbilisi. Ponti, 56, and Sharmanashvili, 37, performed a ritual Georgian dance at the nuptials. […]
A concert at the Teatro Maggio Musicale to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini’s death was cancelled due to a general strike of public workers across Italy. Politics came first. The post Florence dishonours […]
Keri-Lynn Wilson, who conducts the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra on Arte tonight, talks to Backstage Classical about her mission: ‘We are fighting for Ukraine on the cultural front. I consider my baton my weapon, and that […]
