At St-Félix-de-Valois, near Joliette, home of Canada’s largest classical music festival, Royal Canadian Mounted Police found 63 kilograms of Cocaine inside a Grand Piano that was being delivered to the town. The piano (pictured) is […]
The French film composer Alexandre Desplat has signed with HarrisonParrott for global classical management. Desplat, 62, has been involved in 130 films, winning Academy Awards for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The Shape of […]
The Frenchman, who withdrew from conducting this summer after being accused of sending dick-pics to female musicians, has just been reconfirmed to take over as chief conductor of the SWR Orchestra in 2025. The Stuttgart-based […]
Jonathan Manners has been appointed Director of the BBC Singers ‘following a competitive recruitment process’. Manners has been the group’s producer since 2016, responsible for artistic direction and broadcast output. He says: ‘I am thrilled […]
The Arts Council was founded in 1946, in the words of Maynard Keynes, ‘to encourage the best British national arts, everywhere, and to do it as far as possible by supporting others rather than by […]
Apple Music Classical extended its reach today to a pair of summer festivals, Aspen and Verbier. It also hooked into concerts from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. None […]
The death is reported of Juan Carlos Núñez, a composer much beloved of Venezuelan musicians, both at home and in exile. After studies in Warsaw, Núñez conducted most of the leading orchestras and encouraged composers […]
The Netherlands orchestra world is in uproar over the latest disastrous cuts. Amsterdam, July 15, 2024 – Eleven different interest groups from the music sector have called on the Minister of Education, Culture and Science […]
The death has been reported of the composer Edith Lejet, Emeritus Professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. She died today, in the week of her 83rd birthday. A […]
The Baltimore Symphony has chosen Martha Conwell Long as principal flute. She is presently with the Oregon Symphony. Ms Long replaces Emily Skala, who was dismissed amid a Covid furore in August 2021. The post […]
