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The conductor, singer and teacher Andrew Withington died at the weekend with family at his bedside. Among early tributes, the New Zealand Choral Federation writes: ‘ It is with great sadness that we learned today […]

To no great surprise, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra has appointed the country’s most successful conductor, Jakub Hrůša, to be its next  music director from September 2028. He will succeed Semyon Bychkov who is retiring after […]

Amit Peled has a tale to tell.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Amit Peled (@amitpeledcellist) The post Israeli cellist is bumped by Air Canada agents appeared first on Slippedisc.

Copyright lawyer Corey Field, who is also a composer and has just registered a string quartet, has spotted that the latest US certificates have no signatory name after President Trump fired the former registrar Shira […]

The 2025 Ring Award for Direction, Stage, and Costume Design was awarded in Graz to an Italian team – Giorgio Pesenti, Giulia Bruschki, Riccardo Mainetti, Elena Patacchini and Matteo Castiglioni.   The post Italians win […]

News from New Orleans, Louisiana: A longtime music teacher and band director at a Catholic school in Metairie contends that he was fired this week after a parent complained about his same-sex marriage, sparking an […]

Sotheby’s are selling a very scarce first edition next week of Handel’s Giulio Cesare. [Giulio Cesare] Julius Caesar: an Opera. Compos’d by G. Frederick Handel, of London, Gent., London: Cluer, [1724] FIRST EDITION, [6], 118 […]

From a reader: Saturday’s performance of Saul had to be abandoned minutes before the final curtain because of a power outage. The announcements from the stage were almost inaudible from my seat in the Upper […]

We have been notified of the passing of Stuat Burrows, a leading internmational tenor who had his own BBC series for two seasons, Stuart Burrows Sings. Starting out most in concert performances, he made his […]

The Austrian-US drimmer and composer Lukas Ligeti has signed to Edition Peters, which is part of Wise Music Group. Ligeti, 60, is presnetly professor of music in Brussels. “Lukas Ligeti is an artist whose creativity […]