The Swiss choral composer François Pantillon has died, a month after his 97th birthday.
Pantillon published many tonal Christian choral pieces and cantatas before a friendship with Krzysztof Penderecki led him to a more adventurous, modern style. His opera Die Richterin appeared in 1991.
From 1986 to 2011 he was music director of the City Orchestra of Thun
The post Composer dies, 97 appeared first on Slippedisc.
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, […]
At the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester they are setting their fees low: Salary Grade: £44.30 to £54.44 per hour (dependent on experience) (pending Pay Review) Closing date: 12 Noon, Tuesday 6th August […]
The composer and all-round musician Simon House died this weekend, aged 76. A founder of the Hawkwind band, he left to join the iconic David Bowie in 1978 as violinist, keyboard player and mandolinist. The […]
