Talking to Zsolt Bognar on Living the Classical Life, the British cellist thinks classical musicians should get out more. Concert halls are fine, he says, but a bar is where you meet different types.
When he’s off duty, he plays Bob Marley and Michael Jackson.
When he’s down, he reads Haydn string quartets.
Watch here.
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Waterperry Opera Festival, near Oxford, has appointed John Savournin as CEO and Artistic Director from September. Savournin is an active bass-baritone with leading UK opera companies. The post Bass-baritone to run opera festival appeared first […]
We have been notified of the death of the international Japanese conductor Kazuyoshi Akiyama, at the age of 84. Music director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra for four decades, 1964 to 2004, he was transformational […]
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