The St Pauk Chamber Orchestra functions with artistic partners, not directors. Its players say they prefer to go conductorless.
However…. they have just chosen a new artsitic partner and he is a conductor.
Gábor Takács-Nagy, 68, is principal conductor of the Manchester Camerata.
The post Egalitarian orchestra decides it needs conductor appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Athens Symphony Orchestra has called off a November concert with Denis Matsuev, an occasional adviser to Vladimir Putin. It said: ‘Throughout its many years of activity, the Orchestra has served artistic excellence as well […]
I once offended the great man by deprecating the jacket he wore to work at IRCAM. It was a rumpled tweedy garment, half-town, half-country. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ he cried. ‘It lacks style,’ I said, […]
The city of Kiel has announced that its music director, Gabriel Feltz, died unexpectedly on Friday at Essen University Hospital. Feltz, who was also music director of the Belgrade Philharmonic, was 55. No cause of […]
