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Dear Alma On our last tour I lent 200 Euros to the concertmaster to buy a new Eton shirt. We came home a month ago and he has shown no sign of paying me back. […]

Who knew they still played the Tchaikovsky concerto? The post Khatia does it with Klaus appeared first on Slippedisc.

£57,735.56 per annum 33 hours per week We are currently recruiting for a permanent member of our Music Staff team to work as a repetiteur and to coach ROH Principals and Guest Principals to work […]

Welcome to the most successful springboard to a conducting career: The four conductors selected by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil as 2024/25 Dudamel Fellows are Holly Hyun Choe, born in South […]

The pianist was added today to a Justice Ministry list of Russians who have spoken out againnst Putin’s war in Ukraine. It’s a list of honour. The post Russians name Kissin as a foreign agent […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: In the early days of long-playing records. a man in a suit at EMI realised that the Grieg and Schumann concertos were half an hour long, in the […]

The next president at Berklee will be Jim Lucchese, a former executive at Spotify, the controversial streaming service. Boston born and a drummer by vocation, Lucchese sold his start-up The Echo Nest to Spotify in […]

The death has been announced of Berlin’s ensemble mosaik founder Bettina Junge, after a long illness. Originally from Cologne, she was passionately committed to contemporary composers, taking board positions with Berlin’s Gesellschaft für Neue Musik […]

The St Pauk Chamber Orchestra functions with artistic partners, not directors. Its players say they prefer to go conductorless. However…. they have just chosen a new artsitic partner and he is a conductor. Gábor Takács-Nagy, […]

The Brazilian Academy of Music mourns the death of pianist Maria Josephina Mignone at the age of 101 years. She founded the “Francisco Mignone Cultural Center and was the premier interpreter of her huband’s works. […]