The virtuoso clarinettist Michel Arrignon, a co-founder of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, died today in La Rochelle at the age of 76. Arrignon was principal clarinet of the Paris Opera Orchestra, founder of the Olivier Messiaen […]
The Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy are #1 and #2 respectively in the new QS world university rankings for performing arts. The Paris Conservatoire is 3rd, Guildhall 4th and Vienna 5th. So […]
Bucharest National Opera is premiering Gil Shohat’s The Eichmann Trial at the end of the month. The opera, based in an Israeli stage play by Motti Lerner, aims to ‘keep the memory of the past […]
Lena-Catharina Schneider (pic) is stepping aside as artistic director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, ‘at her own request’. She plans to choose ‘a new career path’ that will achieve a better balance between family life […]
Among Gustavo Dudamel’s plans for his first season at the New York Philharmonic, announced yesterday, is the appointment of the British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason as artist in residence. Also eye-catching is a new orchestral version, […]
Press release: Vienna, March 2025 – To mark the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II, the Vienna Tourist Board and the European Space Agency (ESA), in partnership with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, are sending his masterpiece […]
One of the new Trumpist on the board of the Washington Performing Arts Center has been blue-sky thinking with the NY Times. Businessman Paolo Zampolli, who claims to have introduced Trump to his present wife […]
The young Danish conductor Christian Øland has been named chief of the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra. Based in southern Jutland, the orchestra covers both Denmark and northern Germany. Øland, 30, is a graduate of the Sibelius […]
Steve Custer, who has died aged 81, won an LA Phil audition with Zubin Mehta in 1974 and played in the cello section until 2010. He appeared in more than 5,000 concerts following the batons […]
The death has been recorded, aged 94 of the Scottish conductor James Lockhart, a formative force in British and German opera houses. Early in his career, Lockhart spent five years in Cardiff as music director […]
