A Canadian composer is deported from the US
Message from Andrew Balfour, a Cree composer from Winnipeg: Yesterday is a day I’d rather forget. Even with what I thought was proper paperwork, I was denied entry in US. So, they put you in […]
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Edinburgh International Festival Breaks Boundariesin a Year Exploring ‘The Truth We Seek’
1–24 AUGUST 2025eif.co.uk / @edintfest| Edinburgh International Festival’s 2024 programme offers opportunities to experience world-class artists in thought-provoking and unconventional ways – including an eight-hour choral extravaganza, a distinctive outdoor promedande dance piece and a circus […]
Next up at the Kennedy Center: The Apple opera
press release: Washington National Opera (WNO) presents the highly-anticipated The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, created by Kennedy Center’s first Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell. The Grammy Award®-winning opera, which follows the life of […]
Three new recruits in the Boston Symphony
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 […]
Hollywood star Bill Murray to take Birmingham on an ‘unexpected journey’ with gig at Symphony Hall for New Worlds tour
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 […]
Waterperry Opera Festival announces search for a new CEO
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 […]
ROSL announces its Gold Medal finalists and Collaborative Piano prize winner for the 2025 Annual Music Competition.
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 […]
Germans cry: More Carter
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 […]
Exclusive: Birmingham bans cameras in concerts
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 […]
Gidon Kremer leads tributes to the late Gubaidulina
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. […]
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