London-based MaestroArts has signed the young French-Finnish conductor Aliisa Neige Barrière. Daughter of the late composer Kaija Saariaho, Aliisa was mentored in Helsinki by Jorma Panula and studied at the Sibelius Academy under Sakari Oramo, […]
The Detroit Symphony has hired Martin Sher of the New World Symphony as V-P and Chief Artistic & Operating Officer, a new position. The top floor already consists of President & CEO Erik Rönmark, V-P […]
Theartsdesk.com, founded 15 years ago by Ismene Brown and other ex-Daily Telegraph critics, is in trouble. It needs to raise £100,000 urgently to stay alive. Here‘s why. There’s a gofundme page. The post Arts site […]
Remember the University of Michigan? It’s where the last president was fired for allegedly coming on to a staff member. But that’s the least of its misdeeds. It ignored years of sexual abuse by violin professor […]
The wedding of Dr Andrew Lumsden to Leona Mani took place on Saturday at the Chapel of St Cross, Winchester. The Bishop of Basingstoke officiated and 250 guests were treated to spectacular music sung by […]
The death has been communicated of Arthur Moreira Lima, a leading Brazilian pianist who came second to Martha Argerich in the 1965 Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Arthur recorded the complete works of Chopin over the […]
Silk Roads – British Museum smuggling secrets Camel caravans crossing desert dunes, merchants trading silks and spices at bazaars – these are the images that come to mind when we think of the Silk Road. […]
The Ukraine-born Vera Brezhneva was a star singer on Russian and Ukrainian TV … until she had to choose. Although living mostly in the safety of Latvia, she returned to Ukraine and has taken a […]
Canada’s Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, which went bankrupt in September last year, has reached a settlement with its creditors and will resume performances in the coming month. The agreement has been ratified by the Superior Court of […]
The US tenor, presently at the Met, talks about his unusual pathway to the limelight in the latest episode of Speaking Soundly with Met principal trumpet David Krauss. ‘When I got to college… my goal […]
