The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain has cancelled Andrew Batterham’s Trumpet Concerto from its Summer Course concert in Blackburn next Saturday. Batterham, 56, has been charged with alleged child sex offences in Melbourne, […]
Christian Thielemann stepped down tonight as chief conductor of the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden with a performance of Gustav Mahler’s 8th Symphony at the Semper Opera. Thielemann, 65, is about to become General Music Director […]
The Chiaroscuro Quartet, which plays on on gut strings and with period bows, has had a change of violinist. The Spaniard Pablo Hernán Benedí is leaving after 14 years. He is replaced by French violinist […]