The New York Times reported approvingly the other day that Atlanta Opera’s turnaround chief Tomer Zevulun made a handsome $700,000 in the company’s last financial year, parlayed down to $550,000 by some anxious PR. Zevulun […]
The Bernard Haitink Conducting Fellowship, founded by Patricia Haitink, has placed a young American on a two-year internship with Sir Simon Rattle at Munich’s BRSO. Sasha Scolnik-Brower, 29, was previously a conducting fellow at the […]
Having waltzed out of Intermusica, where staff could never do enough for her, our heroine has finally sealed a deal with Opus3, which is where she started out many walkouts and mergers ago. We hear […]
AskonasHolt has signed the Chinese pianist Junyan Chen, who came second in the recent Leeds competition. The winner, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, is already represented by Monika Felkel’s NY boutique agency. Junyan played a blinder in Rach […]
Richard William Pickar, Music Director of the Galveston Symphony Orchestra for 33 years (1979-2012) and principal clarinetist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra for 31 years (1959 -1990), died on Thursday, October 3, 2024, in Houston, […]
CMU reports that Naxos has filed suit in Tennessee against Kuke Music, a classical subscription service in China. It claims Kuke owes $1.9 million in unpaid fees. CMU says: The legal dispute is presumably problematic […]
The SA Philharmonic has cancelled the rest of October while mired in disputes, financial and legal. Here’s the current state of affairs, by Sanford Nowlin: “The San Antonio Philharmonic has pushed back its Classics III […]
The full Philadelphia Orchestra will tour China from the end of this month until mid-November. Principal Guest Marin Alsop will conduct. They will give concerts in Beijing, Tianjin, Chengdu, and Haikou. Pipa player Wu Man […]
Jonas is out for a month. Nous sommes navrés de vous annoncer que Jonas Kaufmann, atteint du Covid 19, se voit contraint de reporter son concert prévu le mercredi 9 octobre à 20 h au […]
Describing itself as ‘as one of the world’s most notable classical music festivals’, InClassica International Music Festival will be resident next April at Dubai Opera ‘with a special edition dedicated to marking the 55th birthday […]
