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”.
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin has renewed hi contract at the Metropolitan Opera until 2023. There was never any doubt that he would. General manager Peter Gelb said, ‘The Met is very fortunate to have one […]
Dear Alma, A member of my chamber ensemble is always late for rehearsals, barely makes our flights, and the other week we had to delay our start time for a concert because they misread the […]
The death has been made known of Gonzalo Augusto, founder of Agencia Conciertos Augusto, which represents many leading artists in the Iberian peninsula. Gonzalo was 70. The post Spanish agency loses its head appeared first […]