It’s Yuja’s birthday today

The conductor has posted a memorial notice for the Slovak violinist and violist Peter Zelienka, a key player in Frankfurt’s HR symphony orchestra since 1993. Zelienka was also founder-violist of the Haba Quartet and, lately, […]

From an interview with Bruce Duffie in 2005: Many young conductors come up and ask for advice.  It is hard, you know.  The first thing is that real talent needs not so much advice.  It […]

Musicians are mourning the death of Matias de Oliveira Pinto, a cellist and professor, killed in a car crash near Münster on Monday night. The Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra writes: The Osesp Foundation deeply mourns […]