classical music

The death has been communicated of Dominic Cossa, a stalwart Met baritone in the 1970s and beyond. One record, he sang opposite Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti in L’elisir d’amore and in Handel’s Giulio Cesare […]

Many happy returns to Abdullah Ibrahim, South Africa’s wizard of Cape jazz improvisation. A refugee from apartheid, he has lived most of his adult life in New York, performing under the stage name Dollar Brand. […]

The rising Brazilian violinist Guido Sant’Anna made a headline or two in 2022 by becoming the first South American violinist to win Vienna’s Fritz Kreisler Competition. Guido was 17 at the time. Now 19, Guido […]

Every chamber music lover knows that Beethoven wrote a set of three string quartets in 1806 for Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador in Vienna. Razumovsky employed a house quartet, led by Beethoven’s friend Ignaz Schuppanzigh […]

The New York Times reported approvingly the other day that Atlanta Opera’s turnaround chief Tomer Zevulun made a handsome $700,000 in the company’s last financial year, parlayed down to $550,000 by some anxious PR. Zevulun […]

The Bernard Haitink Conducting Fellowship, founded by Patricia Haitink, has placed a young American on a two-year internship with Sir Simon Rattle at Munich’s BRSO. Sasha Scolnik-Brower, 29, was previously a conducting fellow at the […]

Having waltzed out of Intermusica, where staff could never do enough for her, our heroine has finally sealed a deal with Opus3, which is where she started out many walkouts and mergers ago. We hear […]

AskonasHolt has signed the Chinese pianist Junyan Chen, who came second in the recent Leeds competition. The winner, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, is already represented by Monika Felkel’s NY boutique agency. Junyan played a blinder in Rach […]

Richard William Pickar, Music Director of the Galveston Symphony Orchestra for 33 years (1979-2012) and principal clarinetist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra for 31 years (1959 -1990), died on Thursday, October 3, 2024, in Houston, […]