The death has been made known of Mat Heighway, a highly popular member of the Jersey Chamber Orchestra and Jersey Symphony Orchestra, among other ensembles. Mat was 46. Rosie Knighton has posted on Fb: ‘Terry […]
The Royal Conservatory of Brussels has appointed Lukas Liketi as Professor of Composition, starting immediately. Lukas, 59, lives in Miami and will commute monthly until he moves to Belgium next year. He is an Austrian […]
They’ve just been named: Violinist Shlomi Shahaf (17), born in Israel and raised in Ukraine, currently studying at the Purcell School Pianist Ryan Wang (17) from Vancouver, Canada, currently on a music scholarship at Eton […]
The singer-songwriter, with his wife Nancy Shevell, attended Yom Kippur services in Santiago, Chile, yesterday, at the Circulo Israelita synagogue. He is seen near the front of the congregation, wearing a white skullcap. Sir Paul […]
It was the black year of 1968 when conductor Agnieszka Duczmal founded the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. On the streets, students and workers went on strike and the antisemitic Communist government blamed the Jews, forcing thousands […]
The Israel Philharmonic has pushed back its season-opening concert to November 4, due to artist cancellations and other considerations. Maxim Vengerov can’t make the date and will be replaced in the Mendelssohn concerto by Mark […]
The much-recorded Valerie Tryon passed 90 last month without fuss. She has lived in Canada since 1976 and is being celebrated this week at a concert at McMaster University. Details here. The post An English […]
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This seems really worthwhile: Applications are open for the 2025 SWAP’ra Retreat at Snape Maltings, in partnership with Britten Pears Arts. The SWAP’ra Retreat is a fully-funded, 5-day residential course providing intensive support, training, and […]
Letter from Professor Ira Sohn in this weekend’s Financial Times: Regarding Tim Harford’s disquisition on the “Baumol effect” and his observation that “it still takes four musicians between 25 and 30 minutes” to play a […]
