The Opus Klassik awards are out this morning. Unsurprisingly, the conductor of the year is the one with the most big jobs: Oslo, Paris, Amsterdam, Chicago. Instrumental winners are Isabelle Faust (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello) […]
The Primrose Competition, a kind of world cup for violists, has been won by Emad Zolfaghari, from Toronto. He is 19 and studying at Curtis. Second was Kinga Wojdalska, 25, from Poland. This year’s competition, […]
Bonnie & Clyde: The Musical Click here Bonnie & Clyde The Musical is the story of two small-town kids from the middle of nowhere who became the biggest folk heroes in all America. They craved […]
The death has been reported of David Cripps, principal horn of the London Symphony Orchestra in the glory years, 1974-1983. He played under Andre Previn and Claudio Abbado, was the first to plerform John Williams’s […]
The family of James Loughran, long serving conductor of the Halle Orchestra, have announced his death in a care facility at the age of 92. Loughran headed the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1971 […]
The orchestra takes up a six-day residency this week with chief conductor Kirill Petrenko and pianist Yuja Wang. The residency includes four orchestra concerts at the Shanghai Grand Theatre with works by Johannes Brahms, Richard […]
I very much regret the loss of Sytze Smit, campaigning editor of the excellent magazine Entr’acte. A former violinist in the Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Sytze relentlessly callewdout cliques and corruption in Dutch musical life. He […]
Moscow-born Alexandra Dovgan, winner of five Russian competitions, has been awarded the Schweizer Klavierpreis Prix Serdang. Previous winners include the Israeli Ariel Lanyi and the Englishman Martin James Bartlett. . The post Russian pianist 16, […]
The jazzman Avishai Cohen and his trio have been cancelled by the Warsaw Jazz Around Festival. The trio appeared recently at the Moscow Jazz Festival supported by the Putin government. The post Israeli musician banned […]
Music director Thomas Søndergård had scheduled a program of Ethel Smyth and Tchaikovsky. When he fell ill, Chad Goodman jumped in. The concert was included a fascinating interval discussion between members of the orchestra and […]
