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 Times higher education supplement reports that Australia’s National University has gutted the core of National School of Music to ‘programme’ rather than academic pursuit. ANU’s performance, composition and theory teaching will give way to […]
The Countess in Marriage of Figaro was one of Kiri te Kanawa’s signature roles. Among many other loications, she sang it at Glyndebourne in 1973. This weekend at Glyndebourne, Kiri was seen in the company […]
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