yesterday in Oslo, the music director played cello in the Brahms double concerto, opposite the Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovoich. They are about to tour together to Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna and Luwigsburg. photo: John-Halvdan Olsen-Halvorsen / […]
The revived 16th International Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition in Salonika ended with the jury, chaired by Thomas Sanderling, withholding first prize. Second went to a Russian, Sergey Akimov. Third was shared between Oliver Cope (UK) and […]
Anything that rouses us to love can also provoke the opposite condition. Music is no exception. There are works we detest almost as much as many others we adore. I am interested in why we […]
The German luxury car-maker has rexcruited 40 local musicians to start an orchestra at its UK base in Preston, Lancashire. The city lost its last orchestra more than half a symphony ago. A Porsch rep […]
The Athens State Orchestra (Kratiki Orchistra Athinon) has confirmed Katerina Chatzinkolau as its concertmster, the country’s only female orchestra leader. Greek born, Katerina was previously 3rd Concertmaster at Duisburg Philharmonic/Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The post […]
The outstanding hornist David Alan Cooper posted last night: ‘I am so happy to share that tonight I was granted tenure as Associate Principal Horn of the LAPhil. ‘This week the @laphil performed in Barcelona, […]
A storm is still raging over the refusal of the Queen Elisabeth Competition winner, the Ukrainian violinist Dmytro Udovychenko, to shake the hand of one of the judges, the Russian violinist Vadim Repin. Udovychenko, 24, […]
For his last concert as music director at SWR in Stuttgart, the Putin conductor Teodor Currentzis chose Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. Nothing controversial about that. Until a Russian tenor in the SWR Vokal-Ensemble, Alexander Yudenkov, […]
Gerard Coutain, winner of the Main Composer Prize at Eisteddfod yr Urdd, 2024 Eisteddfod yr Urdd is Europe’s largest youth festival, produced by Urdd Gobaith Cymru, a National Voluntary Youth Organisation with over 55,000 members between […]
Nature’s Music – RNCM at the Manchester Museum (Photo: ©RNCM) On Saturday 6 July 2024, the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) will take over the galleries of the Manchester Museum and present Nature’s Music, […]
