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The Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition has been won by the South Korean baritone Jungrae Noah Kim. Of the 121 contestants from 39 nations who made it into the finals in the Latvian town of […]

Birmingham Opera Company is about to perform Tippett’s opera New Year. It is an extremely rare event, dividing opinions sharply on itsm merits. Keith Warner will direct. BOC Music Director Alpesh Chauhan will conduct the […]

… One of several racist slogans smeared on an Israeli-owned jazz club in New York which was attacked by racists with red paint. Report here. pictured: Club owner Omer Avital The post ‘Zionists can’t make […]

Royal Liverpool Phil’s Sandra Parr has reported the death of former Merseyside Youth Orchestra star Tim Watts. Timothy went on to become 2nd oboe of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Oboe of English Touring […]

Moscow-trained Ilya Shmukler, 27, has swept the board at the Geza Anda piano competition in Geneva. He won the main prize, audience prize and the young jury’s vote, plus best Mozart performance.   The post […]

We hear that  Mariko Wyrick has won the cello vacancy in the hotly competed Metropolitan Opera Orchestra auditions after three rounds behind the screen. Mariko, from California, plays with her sister in the American Ballet […]

Antonio Moral’s final festival as saviour-director of the Granada Festival opened this weekend with two bangs. The rarely-sighted Kirill Petrenko gave an explosive Bruckner fifth with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, a performance which ended […]

Dear Alma, I am a shrink with some issues. My consulting rooms are near the concert hall. I was not surprised when one of the philharmonic musicians came to see me. I was a little […]

A report from our observer, Susan Hall: The League of American Orchestras held its annual meeting in Houston,Texas from June 6-8. About one thousand representatives of orchestras across the globe attended. In the US, there […]

The Russian-born anti-fascist has been awarded the German National Prize. Levit, 37, takes home 30,000 Euros. The German National Foundation said in Berlin that Levit was an important musician, committed citizen and one of the […]