We have been apprised of the passing of Jim Kjelland, director of orchestras and coordinator of strings from 1984 at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles. He was 76.
Kjelland write several manuals, including Teaching Stringed Instruments and the 3-volume Teaching Music Through Performance in Orchestra.
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The first Fanny Mendelssohn composing prize, worth 10,000 Euros, has been awarded to Sunghyun Lee, 28, from Seoul. He is presently studying in Frankfurt. The post Korean composer wins first Fanny prize appeared first on […]
The rising composer Clemens K. Thomas had an opera, ‘Dollhouse’, premiered in Hamburg a few months back. Now he’s putting on an orchestral piece called ‘Girls und Panzer’. Tricky, right? Thomas explains: I was commissioned […]
The BBC has signed easy-listening composer Eric Whitacre are artist in residence with the BBC Singers for the group’s centenary year. The BBC Singers were narrowly saved from abolition last year amid an unspurge of […]
