A misconduct panel has imposed an indefinite teaching ban on Dale Wills, a former music teacher at Marlborough College. It found that Wills, 42, ‘made inappropriate comments and failed to maintain professional boundaries’. He exchanged […]
We hear that the Belgian early-music orchestra Anima Eterna has sacked its founder Jos Van Immerseel for ‘persistent aggressive behavior’. Immerseel, 78, is one of the leaders of the period-instrument movement. He founded the orchestra […]
Remember this headline: Beethoven Competition is won by chairman’s pupil? Well, Pavel Gililov has done it again. The winner of the Hummel Piano Competition, Russia’s Anastasiia Kliuchereva, studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Gililov. […]
The peripatetic pianist, presently on tour with the London Symphony Orchestra, has erased her global management Intermusica from her website. Intermusica, who have yet to remove her from their artists list, are not responding to […]
When its founders retired last year it looked like Dots Music Camden would be lost forever. Dots is one of about five music shops in London that sell a full range of instruments and sheet […]
HarrisonParrott has just announced the acquisition of Paris boutique agency Solea Management. Solea’s founder Romain Blondel and his team will move immediately to the HarrisonParrott Paris office. The artists affected are: Jonathan Fournel Lucie Horsch […]
Brahms, Saint-Saens, Wolf, Schoenberg, Stenhammar, Rebecca Clarke, Hugh Wood, Weill, Britten, Jake Heggie; Laurence Kilsby, Ella O’Neill; Wigmore HallReviewed 15 September 2024 With a a remarkable combination of confidence and style, the young duo filled […]
Shaken up by the departure of Mark Messenger as head of strings, the Royal College of Music has revamped its violin teaching for the new school year. Soloist Jennifer Pike has joined as full professor, […]
The 23 year-old Russian Maria Zaytseva took first prize at the important ARD competition in Munich. Second was Krzysztof Michalski from Poland, third the Dutchman Alexander Warenberg. The post Russian wins ARD cello contest appeared […]
After a childhood in Soviet Estonia, Viljar Puu Weimann won a place at the Cleveland Institute of Music and went on to play violin and, eventually, to become a conductor. In 2014, Weimann founded Orchestra […]
