The Scottish Ensemble Collaboration is at the heart of the Scottish Ensemble’s recently announced 2024/25 season. A season that includes new work by Hannah Kendall, a new collaboration with fiddle player and violinist Donald Grant, […]
Gershwin, Kapustin, Bonds, Norton, Wave, Arlen/Jarrett Yuki Negishi (piano). Holy Trinity Church, South Woodford, 2pm, 16.06.2024 Gershwin Three Preludes (1926) Kapustin Contemplation, Op. 47 (1987) Margaret Bonds Troubled Water Christopher Norton Bulgarian Sketches (2023) Sally Wave Sunshine Droplets Falling in the […]
Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson: Stífluhringurinn; Caput Ensemble; Carrier RecordsReviewed 18 June 2024 Music like no other. The Icelandic composer returns with a long, single work for large ensemble that mines his fondness for contemplating timbres and […]
Christopher Morley, long-serving arts editor of the Birmingham Post, has written an op-ed today attacking its flailing management and failing reputation. Here goes: The name of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra glows […]
The Greensboro Symphony has named Christopher Dragon as its music director, the first in two decades. Born in Perth to Singapore parents, Dragon is also music director of the Wyoming Symphony. The post Aussie wins […]
The Italian harpsichordist, pianist, and conductor Ottavio Dantone is taking over as music director of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music for the next five years. Over this time the Accademia Bizantina from Ravenna, Italy, […]
Investor Jennifer Pritzker’s Tawani Foundation has just given ten mill to her local band. Half of it goes into a chellenge fund to secure matching grants. Ms Pritzker retired as a lieutenant colonel from the […]
Gabriel van Aalst, President & CEO of the New Jersey Symphony since 2016, is leaving in September to run a performing arts centre in Dayron, Ohio. An Australian who studied in London and was CEO […]
Matthew Feargrieve, a lawyer who assaulted an underwear designer who was trying to climb into the neighbouring seat at the opera in March 2019, has been suspended for 12 months by the Bar Standards Board. […]
Maria Włoszczowska & Dinis Sousa – Royal Northern Sinfonia (Photo: Thomas Jackson / Tynesight Photograph) This Autumn marks 20 years since the Royal Northern Sinfonia moved into its present home, at The Glasshouse International Centre for […]
