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Leave work before 1700: The Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge wishes to appoint a musicologist specialising in the period before c.1700 to the post of Assistant Professor, starting on 1 January 2025 […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The first we heard of Magdalena Kožená was a mid-1990s album of Bach arias, recorded when she was 22. The voice was at once light and dark — […]

We understand that the Houston Symphony has suspended its principal horn, Bill VerMeulen, for the rest of the season. Houston is about to host the League of American Orchestras conference and it does not want […]

The culinary phenomenon Kenji López-Alt is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who plays music where and whenever he can. Speaking Soundly to Met principal trumpet David Krauss, he learned to play violin at […]

The first Fanny Mendelssohn composing prize, worth 10,000 Euros, has been awarded to Sunghyun Lee, 28, from Seoul. He is presently studying in Frankfurt. The post Korean composer wins first Fanny prize appeared first on […]

We have received confirmation of the death on Monday of Werner Hink, a cherished member of the Vienna Philharmonic from 1965. Hink, who was 81, was hugely influential at the Pacific Music Festival Sapporo, where […]

A first from our seen-it-all agony aunt: Dear Alma, Remember me? I’m the North German orchestral player who smeared dogshit in a colleague’s mouthpiece after he grabbed my ass. We are still both suspended. The […]

Liang Wang, suspended principal oboe of the New York Philharmonic, today filed suit against New York Magazine/Vox and reporter Sammy Sussman, claiming $100 million in punitive damages. The substance of the suit is this: ‘The […]

Among today’s six recipients of an honorary PhD at Harvard is the LA Phil’s outgoing music director. He is decorated as a doctor of music. Five of the six PhDs are from minority ethnicities. The […]

The conductor Francois-Xavier Roth, who has been accused of sending inappropriate sexual messages to orchestral players, has informed the the Gürzenich orchestra of Cologne that he has ‘decided not to conduct’ while his conduct is […]