The Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival has fallen this year to Hayato Sumino.
The Japanese pianist, known as ‘Cateen’, has a million Youtube subscribers.
He is 29 and moves, the citation says, ‘between classical, jazz and pop, between social media and the concert stage, between playfulness and seriousness’.
He wins 10,000 Euros, courtesy of a German bank.
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The Stuttgart Opera House opened its season unusually with a film premiere. It’s a biopic by Joachim Lang of the brilliant dancer and choreographer John Cranko, who left the Royal Ballet in London after being […]
Watch this from the current Verbier season. She’s Swiss, 19 years old, from Lausanne. The post Not the soloist, watch the cello appeared first on Slippedisc.
Alastair Macaulay writes movingly about a musician he greatly admired: John Cage (1912-1992) died thirty-two years ago today, a few weeks before his eightieth birthday. Merce Cunningham, his life partner, came home from rehearsals […]
