The budding conductor Aliisa Neige Barriere, daughter of the late composer Kaija Saariaho, gets the biggest opportuinity of her career this weekend.
Designated Young Artist of the Year at the Mikkeli Festival in Finland, Aliisa will conduct Beethoven’s 9th symphony, following a new work for chorus and orchestra by her contemporary composer Luukas Hiltunen, who is 27.
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Schubert, Beethoven, Prokofiev. Pierre-Lurentt Aimard (piano); London Symphony Orchestra / Gianandrea Noseda (conductor). Barbican Hall, 10.04.2025 Schubert Die Zauberharfe, D 644, ‘Rosamude’(1820) Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 (1795, rev. 1801) […]
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We gather that Juilliard has summarily fired a professor of violin after he was caught in what is said to be ‘a lewd act’. Apart from two witnesses who opened the door of his studio […]
