The Central Ostrobothnia Chamber Orchestra has announced the death of principal cello and programme coordinator Dr Lauri Pulakka after a long illness.
Lauri taught cello, baroque cello, viola da gamba and music history at the Sibelius Academy and elsewhere, broadening Finnish horizons.
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Letter from Professor Ira Sohn in this weekend’s Financial Times: Regarding Tim Harford’s disquisition on the “Baumol effect” and his observation that “it still takes four musicians between 25 and 30 minutes” to play a […]
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Medical update from the sickly tenor: While in Verona, I unfortunately started experiencing cold like symptoms which turned into a rather awful flu. This forced me to reschedule my performance in Bratislava and cancel my […]
