New online: Martha plays Mendelssohn

HarrisonParrott has inked a 14 year-old Finnish schoolgirl, Lilja Haatainen, who plays the violin. She has already played concertos with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Finnish Chamber Orchestra, Jyväskylä Sinfonia, […]

Eighteen years after the alleged event, Vanessa Fralick – assistant principal trombone of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra – has accused her former teacher Peter Ellefson of pestering her for sex. Ellefson has been professor at […]

The BBC Proms schedule, made public last night, contains plenty of temptations. – There’s the Vienna Philharmonic, rarely spotted in London nowadays, playing a cheerful pair of symphonies, Bruckner 9 and Tchaikovsky Pathetique. – My […]