The Russian-born conductor of the Czech Philharmonic tells David Krauss in Speaking Soundly that he learned to manage pre-concert tension by playing volleyball from age 10 to 18 with Dynamo Leningrad.
‘My piano teacher was furious,’ he says. ‘Somehow I never injured my fingers.’
On his very first day in New York, he met two nieces of Rachmaninov, one of them Tchaikovsky’s god-daughter….
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Pierre R. Schwob, the founder and CEO of Classical Archives, has written books on calculators, history and even chess. He has now published a unique and remarkable novel, entitled AWE. All of us at Classical […]
Czech media have reported the death of Jiří Žigmund, violist of the Wuhan Quartet from 1988 to 2014. He has suffered longterm health problems. The post Famed violist dies at 58 appeared first on Slippedisc.
The trumpeter Alison Balsom has left HarrisonParrott to join its former executive Tugce Tez in her boutique agency. Balsom has previously been with AskonasHolt and Imogen Lewis Holland The post Biz news: Alison Balsom quits […]
