Denmark’s highest musical honour, the Leonie Sonning Music Prize worth 133,000 Euros, has stayed close to home. The 2025 winner, announced today, is the Danish String Quartet.
They say: ‘We are thankful and humbled. Denmark is a chamber music powerhouse.’
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The Concxertgebouw Orchestra has smartly included the late composer’s Offertorium on its tour next week to Hamburg and Vienna. The soloist is Julian Rachlin. Gubaidulina died on March 13. Offertorium was the first work by Gubaidulina […]
The Ukrainian violinist Alexandre Zapolski, concertmaster of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, has died of cancer at the age of 74. Originally from Ukraine, he migrated to Copenhagen in 1992 and became a powerhouse in […]
The academic Geoff Baker, emeritus professor at Royal Holloway University of London, has published a reflection on the 50th anniversary of the music education system that has become a propaganda instrument of a criminal regime. […]
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