Last week we reported much dissatisfaction with the Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, who reverted from a Beethoven recital on his UK tour to last year’s tried-and-tested Goldberg Variations. The switch was all the more aggravating […]
The orchestra has granted tenure to Roxana Wisniewska, Harry Ward and Eva Rabchevska. Roxana is Polish with Spanish roots, the daughter of two violinists. Harry, who is Australian, studied in the Karajan Academy with Berlin […]
The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts has chosen the cellist and singer Salome Kammer to be head of its music section. Kammer, 65, is the first woman to hold the post since the Academy’s foundation […]