The winner at the piano section of the 2024 George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest last night was Roman Lopatynskyi from Kyiv. The runners-up were both Russian: Tatiana Dorokhova and Evgeny Konnov. When the war […]
The revered violinist Haim Taub, concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic for two decandes until 1988, died today at the age of 99. A student of Oedoen Partos at the Tel Aviv Academy and then of […]
Eight and a half years ago, Valery Gergiev conducted an all-male concert in the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra to celebrate its reconquest by Putin forces on behalf of the chemical mass-murderer Bashir al-Assad. This […]