The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra has named Jean-Marie Zeitouni as its next music director.
Zeitouni, 51, from Montreal, has been music director of the Columbus Symphony and principal conductor and artistic director of I Musici de Montréal.
The Edmonton podium has been vacant for three years since the Englishman Alexander Prior departed.
The post Canadian orch appoints … Canadian appeared first on Slippedisc.
The National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa has named Henry Kennedy, 27, to the new position of Resident Conductor. The job was open only to Canadians. Kennedy, from Nova Scotia, was assistant conductor last summer […]
It’s interesting to see a resurgence in Tchaikovsky’s relatively neglected Orchestral Suites in a smattering of recent new recordings. Newcomer Stanislav Kochanovsky recorded the Third with the NDR Radio Philharmonic for his debut on harmonia mundi, […]
The authorities in Kazan have reported the death of Sofia Gubaidulina, a leader of her generation, at the age of 93. Friends tell us she died early this morning A contemplative, spiritual modernist, she was […]
