Slipped Disc

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Did Bartók play klezmer? The Hungarian composer enthused over many authentic forms of folk music and spent his summers tracking them down across the Balkans, the Iberian peninsula […]

Hamburg Ballet has announced its new Artistic Director. Demis Volpi, 39, is German-Argentine, born in Buenos Aires. He has been Chief Choreographer and Artistic Director of the Ballett am Rhein and has some 30 works […]

William Fox is leaving to become Director of Music at St Albans Cathedral in September as part of a merry-go-round of Anglican high-benchers. William’s successor was announced today. He is James Orford, Organist and Assistant […]

The London Symphony Orchestra has informed ticket-holders: Conductor François-Xavier Roth has withdrawn from his engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra in the 2024/25 season. The LSO is grateful to Thomas Adès for stepping in to […]

You would be forgiven for thinking that London’s second major arts centre is designed for short-term prisoners. In the chaos that followed Nick Kenyon’s beheading, Claire Spencer was recruited from Arts Centre Melbourne, specifically for […]

The SF Symphony Orchestra has announced seven new recruits for what will be Esa-Peklka Salonen’s final season as music director. We hpope they know what they’re diving into. The newbies are: Bass Trombone Christopher Bassett, […]

The budding conductor Aliisa Neige Barriere, daughter of the late composer Kaija Saariaho, gets the biggest opportuinity of her career this weekend. Designated Young Artist of the Year at the Mikkeli Festival in Finland, Aliisa […]

Meet the Millenium (sic) Ensemble of Dresden. Somebody needed to proofread their branding. One missing letter can spell an awful lot of embarrassment. The post The German ensemble that can’t spell its name appeared first […]

They are  Assistant Principal Bass Tobias (Toby) Vigneau (pictutred) and second violin section  members John Bian, Eliot Heaton, and MuChen Hsieh. They come from major orchestras in New Mexico, Milwaukee, Detroit and Houston.     […]

The premier English rural choral festival has reached deep into the  Australian outback for its next CEO. David Francis is head of Wollongong Conservatorium of Music. Before that he worked for the BBC Symphony Chorus, […]