The principal trumpet of the Gothenburg Opera Orchestra Niklas Eklund has died of unknown causes.
The first baroque trumpet recording artist to sell more a million CDs, he was nominated for a Grammy and played in the Basel Symphony Orchestra before returning to his home town.
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The pianist Charles Wadsworth, Spoleto’s founding Artistic Director of Chamber Music, has died in New York. He also created and ran the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, from 1969 to 1989. Charles is survived […]
Bruckner Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä. Kulturpalast, Dresden, 10.05.2024 Symphony No 5 (1875/76; 1878 version, ed. Leopold Nowak, Third Revised Edition of 2005) Klaus Mäkelä’s career is in stratospheric mode. He takes over the […]
We understand that Opera Australia is about to appoint a music director. Patrons have been told in confidence that the chosen one is Andrea Battistoni, a rising Italian conductor. So far, so promising. But Battisoni, […]
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