Vienna-based Yuki Hirano from Sapporo has been pronounced winner of the seventh Jascha Heifetz Competition, which took place in Vilnius, Lithiania. Gidon Kremer chaired the jury. The post Japanese wins Heifetz Competition appeared first on […]
Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the SF Symphony have announced the appointment of Joshua Elmore as Principal Bassoon. He is apparently the orchestra’s first black principal player in 50 years. The SF Symphony have also […]
The death hnas been reported of the venerable violinist Marta Kushnirskaya, soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra for three decades and artistic director of the all-female Marta Kushnirskaya Violin Ensemble. Marta was 91. The post […]
The Regent Opera Ring has been slowly built up over four years, with each opera usually being staged in the Freemasons Hall in central London. For Götterdämmerung, finally staged as part of this set of […]
,%20Jessica%20Cale%20(Giulietta)%20(c)%20Richard%20Hubert%20Smith.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Musical magic moments: Bellini's The Capulets & the Montagues at English Touring Opera takes us firmly into the 1950s and New York's mean streets")
Bellini: The Capulets & the Montagues – Brenton Spiteri, Jessica Cale, Masimba Ushe – English Touring Opera, 2025 (Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith) Bellini: The Capulets and the Montagues; Jessica Cale, Samantha Price, Brenton Spiteri, […]
The Oper! awards, voted by a panel of music critics and reporters, have been presented. Best opera house of 2025 is La Monnaie in Brussels. The jury chair said: ‘Brussels opera house La Monnaie / […]
The former KISS guitarist and singer Karl Cochran has been killed in a car accident in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Cochran, 61, was in the passenger seat of a 2015 Subaru Legacy, driven by his mother, […]
The Brooklyn Academy of Music has unseated its president Gina Duncan after a three-year term. Neither side is saying why. Duncan was the first non-white person to head BAM and she arrived with excellent qualifications. […]
Richard Grenell, Donald Trump’s new KenCen chief, has made his first programming announcement at a Conservative conference in Maryland, promising ‘a big, huge celebration of the birth of Christ at Christmas.’ Grenell said: ‘How crazy […]
The British octet are suddenly down to seven: In a momentous moment for the group, we are saddened to announce that Andrea has made the decision to step down as a member of VOCES8. The […]
