The German-Colombian conductor Anna Handler who starts this month as Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra has just fired her agents at Opus3 and KD Schmid. Handler, 28, has moved instead to Tanja Dorn’s […]
Here’s the puff: Today, BBC Studios, in partnership with luxury watchmaker Rolex, has unveiled ‘Arts in Motion,’ an ambitious editorial program aimed at enriching cultural engagement through masterclasses featuring renowned artists. The series comprises six […]
Tickets go on sale at noon today in Warsaw and hardy souls have been forming an orderly queue since 5am. Love the chap in the blanket wrap. The post They’ve been queueing since dawn for […]
Brighton Festival Chorus (BFC) was founded in 1968 and for that first performance they sang Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. BFC has gone on to have a long partnership with the Royal Philharmonic […]
Peter Somodari, principal cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, has joined the Altenburg Trio in place of Christoph Stradner, principal cellist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. How very civilised. The other players are Ziyu He […]
The death has been communicated of Thomas Wolfram, 75, manager of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg from 1987-1992 and 2014-2020. While in charge at the Mozarteum, Wolfram founded the Vienna agency Primusic, which looked after several […]
Having given the UK premiere of Gounod’s opera La nonne sanglante in 2021, Gothic Opera are planning the UK stage premiere of another 19th century opera inspired by Matthew Gregory Lewis’ gothic novel, The Monk. At […]
The faltering mega-agency has upped its morale with the capture of US mezzo J’nai Bridges from HarrisonParrott. Bridges, unconventionally, suggest her last agency was not pulling its weight: ‘Joining IMG is a remarkable moment which […]
After coming to the end of 25 years with Carlos Kalmar, Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival has named a successor for the next three summers. He is Giancarlo Guerrero, who has just stepped down at […]
The climate protest group Greenpeace is bragging the capture of two music icons – British six-time Grammy winner Jacob Collier and Norwegian alt-pop superstar AURORA – for ‘a magical performance in the Arctic, released today.’ […]
