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Message from Lincoln Center – no other soloist would do? We are writing to inform you of a change to your upcoming NY Phil performance: pianist Yuja Wang has withdrawn due to health issues. Ravel’s […]

The independent minded theatre director Wolfgang Engel has died at 81. He made his name internationally with a Dresden production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, refusing the East German state prize as a mark […]

The Ensemble Intercontemporain is to be run by a German broadcasting executive called Patrick Hahn (not to be confused with the young Austrian conductor of the same name). Hahn has programmed a “Musik der Zeit” […]

Italian state radio reports that the renowned trumpet player Sergio Orlandi, 60, has been attacked and beaten as he approached his car by a 14 year-old student he had excluded from his class. The incident […]

The Australian violinist Donald Hazelwood died this weekend, a few days after turning 95. He joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as a second violinist in 1952, rising to co-concertmaster in 1965 and leading the orchestra […]

We understand that William VerMeulen resumed his place in the Houston Symphony at Friday night’s concert after a leave of absence in which he was accused of numerous acts of sexual misconduct at Rice University, […]

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Since the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris reopened last November, there have been multiple reports of subtle changes in its acoustic. The impression is not necessarily negative. One of the acousticians believe they may […]

The impressive pianist Schaghajegh Nosrati has cancelled her tour this year, saying she cannot perform there under the Trump administration. Nosrati, born in Bochum in 1989 to Iranian parents, has made her name playing Bach […]

Melissa Kraut, who quit as cello co-chair at the floundering Cleveland Institute of Music, is to succeed Stephen Balderson as professor of cello at DePaul University School of Music. Quite a coup for DePaul. Melissa […]