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 University of Michigan, won the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal competition for woodwind and brass.
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The veteran Alain Lanceron has signed Nathalie Stutzmann to Warner Classics & Erato. Her debut recording will be Dvorak with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, out in August. The post Label news: Stutzmann gets record deal […]
Principal trumpet Esteban Batallán has been telling Dennis Polkow why he left the Chicago Symphony for Philadelphia last year… and came back six months later. Batallán: ‘Somehow, I wanted to make sure I had a […]
Welsh National Opera is in trouble. It has hired two co-directors, both with social-campaigning credentials. From today’s press release: Welsh National Opera has announced today that internationally renowned Opera and Theatre Director Adele Thomas and […]
