The Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino, better known by his Youtube handle ‘Cateen’, has signed with ex-Cami chief Doug Sheldon at Sheldon Artists, NY.
Sumino, 29, has 1.3 million Youtube subscribers.
He has been playing Chopin from age 3, reaching the semi-finals of the 2022 Warsaw Chopin Competition.
In other agency moves, the Brooklyn Rider ensemble have switched to Felix Nieto at Arts Management Group on 57th Street.
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The Finnish conductor has been appointed music director of the 2026 Ojai Music Festival. He previously filled that role in 1999 and 2001. ‘Esa-Pekka Salonen is one of the most inventive, adventurous thinkers of 21st-century […]
The newly remastered Carnegie Hall concert of December 8, 1957. Unbelievably intense. The post Watch: Jussi Björling comemmorates Jean Sibelius appeared first on Slippedisc.
Anna Starushkevych, a UK-based mezzo-soprano, is putting on her own song-and-dance work in war-torn Ukraine. Here’s is her unmediated account of today’s mid-war reality, published first on slippedisc.com: Hello from Ivano-Frankivsk — a beautiful city […]
