Leonard Cohen would have been 90 today

Herbert (Sonny) Ausman, second trombonist in the LA Phil for 45 years, has died at the age of 78. His colleague, Ralph Sauer, writes: Herbert (“Sonny”) Medlar Ausman III passed away yesterday, just a few […]

Melissa Kraut, who quit as cello co-chair at the floundering Cleveland Institute of Music, is to succeed Stephen Balderson as professor of cello at DePaul University School of Music. Quite a coup for DePaul. Melissa […]

The death has been announced of Berlin’s ensemble mosaik founder Bettina Junge, after a long illness. Originally from Cologne, she was passionately committed to contemporary composers, taking board positions with Berlin’s Gesellschaft für Neue Musik […]