The Israeli double bassist Avishai Cohen, dropped earlier this week by a Warsaw festival for performing in Moscow, has now been cancelled on July 13-14 at the Walden Festival in Brussels.
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The eminent Rome oboist Carlo Romano has announced the death of his senior colleague Bruno Incagnoli, retired principal oboe of the of the Rai Symphony Orchestra of Rome. Incagnoli was 88. Carlo writes: ‘Bruno was […]
The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, based in San Francisco, has named Peter Whelan as its next music director. Whelan, 47, will take up the baton a year from now. He succeeds Richard Egarr. Meantime, he will […]
Monseigneur Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, Rector-archpriest of Cathedral Notre Dame de Paris, has responded to a petition by eminent organists that criticizes the engagement without trial of four young musicians. He said that a competition for […]
