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The Royal Academy of Music in London has appointed violinist Hilary Hahn as Visiting Professor. It probably won’t take up much of her time. Hahn, 44, is also the Juilliard School’s Visiting Artist in the […]

Czech media are respectfully noting the death of Ludek  Golat, former head of the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre. He was 70. Golat was fired in 2009 after he threw a salami at a singer’s face, knocking […]

This can’t be what he learned at Curtis. The masterclass student here is Van Cliburn finalist Clayton Stephenson.     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Julian (@schumannop.44) The post Lang […]

The paper has published four letters from readers who refuse to attend concert where phones and photography are permitted. One is from the music critic and Tippett authority Meirion Bowen. The case for permitting phones, […]

Greek National Opera is offering 1,500 free seats to unemployed people for the dress rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ this Friday night at 9pm. The show is being staged at the Herodes Atticus Odeon in […]

The long-serving head of music at Bishop’s Stortford College in Hertfordshire has been banned for life from teaching after a tribunal found him guilty of touching boys for sexual gratification. Andrew Bruce, 64, taught at […]

From the Pittsburgh Symphony: PITTSBURGH, PA— The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) today released the results of an independent study of its economic impact on Pittsburgh and the surrounding region. The study was conducted by a […]

The New Yorker critic goes to town on a Los Angeles piano recital. … a number of people find themselves distracted. “She’d fit much better in a night club” is one of the politer complaints […]

The French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour was born a hundred years ago, on May 22, 1924. As refugees from Turkish genocide in Armenia, and forced to flee again from their next home in Salonica, the Aznavours […]

The board of FEVIS, the Fédération des Ensembles Vocaux et Instrumentaux Spécialisés, has expelled the renowned French ensemble Les Siècles after its founder-conductor Francois-Xavier Roth was found to have sent inappropriate images to female musicians. […]