The Ukrainian-born banker-turned-artist agent Lena Khandros has died unexpectedly in the US after keeping quiet for some time about a serious illness.
Having been a v-p on Wall Street and in Singapore, Lena founded Momentum Artists, representing just six soloists.
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Vienna-based Yuki Hirano from Sapporo has been pronounced winner of the seventh Jascha Heifetz Competition, which took place in Vilnius, Lithiania. Gidon Kremer chaired the jury. The post Japanese wins Heifetz Competition appeared first on […]
The inimitable Quincy Jones died yesterday, aged 91. A kid off Chicago’s rough South Side, sharing drug fixes with Ray Charles, he won a scholarship to Berklee and wound up studying in Paris with Nadia […]
Another Canadian orchestra has plumped for a Canadian conductor. Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra has installed Simon Rivard, starting this month. Rivard, 35, is from Montreal and he’s also MD of Edmonton Opera and the Orchestre de […]
