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”.
Grange Park Opera this morning sealed a deal to secure the summer employment of the orchestra of English National Opera. Under the five-year agreement, the orchestra will play the entire Ring Cycle from 2026 to […]
The Cleveland Orchestra, leaderless since David Radzynski resigned in March, has upgraded a recent member of the second violins to the title of first associate concertmaster. Xie, from Shanghai, joined the orchestra ten months ago. […]
The sacked president of Washington’s Kennedy Center has been appointed vice provost for the arts at Duke University, a private college in North Carolina. Rutter, 68, has spent her career up to Kennedy managing major […]