The award-winning English cellist Richard Harwood is playing out his final month in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra before making a change of direction. He writes:
A couple of months ago, I reached the sad decision to leave this wonderful family of friends and colleagues in order to focus on a range of other musical activities. It’s been a wonderful 7 years.
I look forward to our tour of China with Vasily Petrenko next week where I also get the opportunity to be soloist for two of the nights in Beijing and Shanghai performing Tan Dun’s Suite from “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”.
Alan Gilbert: Very few people have had such an impact on my musical life as Christoph von Dohnányi, here in a picture from after conducting a memorable Deutsches Requiem. Esa-Pekka and I were just this […]
Hungarian conductor Ádám Fischer returns to Haydn: his complete recording of all of the symphonies with the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Here he is again, in a less remnant acoustic this time (the concert hall of […]
Interlochen Arts Academy informs us: Matthew Straw is jumping in as a last minute replacement for Christian Reif with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at Interlochen on Sunday evening. Matthew is the youngest conductor to […]