From Scherzo: The conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit, according to the Royal Decree published yesterday, January 15, in the Official State Gazette. This […]
Gustavo Dudamel is rewriting the guest tour rules. Here’s the press release: The Berliner Philharmoniker will embark on a concert tour of Japan under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, continuing their long-standing relationship with the […]
Laura Kuhn, director of the John Cage Trust which she co-founded after the composer’s death in 1992, announced her retirement this week. She met Cage while finishing her PhD on Europera. She also worked closely […]
Another stunner, this one from Alexandre Kantorow and friends. The post It’s always time for Brahms appeared first on Slippedisc.
In an interview on Zsoly Bognar’s Living the Creative Life, the Spanish-based pianist talks about how she helped a young singer to leave Venezuelan, took him in as a house guest and helped him to […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: If you are about to step into a warm bath, put one of these on the player and submerse your January body in a fantasy world that never […]
Gustavo Dudamel has only ever had one agent, an Englishman called Mark Newbanks. His firm, Fidelio Arts, has looked after at various times Yuja Wang, Lionel Bringuier and others, but Dudamel was always the main […]
There has been much chatter of late on this site and elsewhere on the predominance of Finns in the global podium. From a nation that conducts intense conversations chiefly with its shoelaces, this phenomenon is […]
The Finnish-Ukrainian Dalia Stasevska has been renewed as principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra until September 2027. She has also been making a strong impression on US orchestras. Expect a title soon. The […]
Philip Ellis, conductor of Birmingham Royal Ballet, is stepping down in Marech after 35 years. He has conducted the Royal Ballet Sinfonia more than two thousand times. The post Conductor steps down in Birmingham appeared […]
