The widely respected choral director Simon Halsey has joined the Oslo Philharmonic as Choral Director and Artistic Advisor for the next five years. Halsey, whose career tracked Simon Rattle’s from Birmingham to Berlin to London, […]
Mikis Theodorakis conducting in Hamburg in 1971 The name of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is forever associated with the soundtrack to the 1964 film Zorba the Greek with its now ubiquitous main theme which was inspired by […]
The death has been announced of the Ukrainian composer Yakov Gubanov, aged 71. His legacy includes six symphonies, a violin concerto and much other orchestral music. He credited Dmitri Shostakovich with a profound influence on […]