The 43rd International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition was won last night in Bern by the South Korean baritone Geon Kim.
Out of 135 singers from 45 countries, South Korea submitted by far the most contestants – 25. This is starting to look unbalanced.
Russians came second and third – Valentina Pravdina and Valeriia Gorbunova.
The audience prize went overwhelmingly to an Armenian soprano Tatev Baroyan.
The post Koreans swamp competition – and win appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Taipei Symphony Orchestra has chosen Alexander Liebreich as ikts next chef condcutor. Liebreich, 56, is also music director of the Orchestra de Valencia in Spain. In Taipei he succeeds the long-serving Eliahu Inbal. The […]
The world according to conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza, author of What’s So Great About America: Someone should run up to the front and yank this self-serving conductor out of there. She’s ruining it! It’s not […]
You may read below a statement by the International Double Reed Society’s president Jacqueline Wilson, claiming that its directors and personnel have received death threats over a policy to restrict certain IDRS grants to ‘under-represented’ […]
%20TallWall%20Media_Oxford%20Song.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "There was no closure here: four Irish women composers give voice to women of the Magdalene Laundries in remarkable performances from Lotte Betts-Dean & Deirdre Brenner in Oxford")
