The orchestra, with music director Andris Nelsons, has added Samuel Andonian and Arianna Brusubardis Grace to its violin section. Both are local youngesters. Caleb Quillen (pictured) of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra succeeds Ed Barker as […]
The Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters star brings a performance described by the Chicago Tribune as “a show no-one else could have done” to Birmingham for one night only. Making a very welcome visit to Birmingham […]
Co-founder and outgoing CEO, Guy Verrall-Withers, to leave after 2025 festival WATERPERRY, OXFORDSHIRE – 12 March 2025 – Waterperry Opera Festival today announces that the board of trustees has initiated the search for a new […]
This week, the last of four solo rounds for the ROSL Annual Music Competition concluded, seeing violinist Mabelle Young-Eun Park join pianist Rafael Kyrychenko, soprano Madeleine Perring and oboist Ewan Milar in competing for the […]
Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar today named the Australian Daniel Carter as their next music director, from September this year. He is presently GMD at Landestheater Coburg. He is not to be confused with fellow-Aussie […]
Ushers were sent out with these signs at last night’s CBSO concert of Dvorak Cello Concerto and Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances. It looks like the CBSO’s chief exec Emma Stenning has been forced to back down […]
We have received this message from the eminent violinist: Die Nachricht ist gleichzeitig erwartet und erschütternd traurig. Sofia bedeutete mir enorm viel -sie war (und das wird so bleiben) eine enorme Unterstützung auf meinem Lebensweg. […]
The Monteverdi Choir and soloists will open the Edinburgh Festival with John Tavener’s eight-hour choral epic, The Veil of The Temple. The choir will be conducted by its new director, the British-Swiss baritone Jonathan Sells […]
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 […]
The british conductor Jonathan Nott will end his leadership next season of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. No successor has been named. But the season’s guest conductors are predominantly women – Eun Sun Kim […]
