Days after nailing Ryan Roberts from the NY Phil as principal oboe, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has secured a principal second violin.
She is Melody Ye Yuan from Canada and she has been playing in the first violins throughout this season.
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After 24 years as concertmaster, the English violinist Katherine Hunka is leaving the Irish Chamber Orchestra to pursue other challenges. She explains: ‘I always wanted to avoid cynicism.’ The post Leader quits Irish appeared […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: It’s 30 years since I heard Gyorgy Ligeti explain why he was allowing his first string quartet to be performed after four decades lying in a drawer. The […]
The Saxon soprano Barbara Hoene has died, aged 80. She spent 36 years as a soloist of the Semper Oper in Dresden, where she was appointed Kammersängerin, She married the violinist Klaus Hoene and retired […]
