The US violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic since 2014, has been co-opted by the Curtis Institute as its first ‘visiting faculty member’. He will devote one residency each semester to mentoring young violinists.
Bendix-Balgley, 39, also leads the Rosamunde Quartet, whose management is based at Curtis.
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The general director of the Orchestre philharmonique du Québec, Jean-Marc Léveillé, left the organisation this month, citing ‘irreconcilable divergences between the general management and the artistic director, Alexandre Da Costa’. One of Léveillé’s supporters speaks […]
The over-booked Finn had a hard time at his Vienna Philharmonic debut this weekend with Mahler’s sixth Symphony. The experienced critic for Der Standard, Stefan Ender, found the performance ‘incredibly loud’, resulting in ‘a levelling […]
