Taking its lead from the Spain football team, whose teenaged star gets sent to bed before full-time, the Vancouver Symphony has chosen Julin Cheung as its Assistant Principal Flute/Piccolo after an international audition.
Julin is 17. He won’t take up the position until April next year, when he finishes school.
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The Swiss Grand Prix for music has been awarded to the Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta. The cash prize is worth 100,000 Swiss francs. That’s US $109,372.00. Gabetta, 43, lives in Switzerland in Switzerland and teaches […]
The death of the German composer Wolfgang Rihm has left a vacancy at the festival’s next-gen orchestra. Rihm’s successor, announced today, is to be the German composer and clarinettist Jörg Widmann. The post New wind […]
From the Bavarian press: The singer Anna Netrebko will perform with Yusif Eyvazov in the Thurn and Taxis Castle Festival in Regensburg’s St. Emmeram Castle on July 27, 2025. The programme includes Giacomo Puccini’s most […]
