Bavarian Academy has first woman chief
The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts has chosen the cellist and singer Salome Kammer to be head of its music section. Kammer, 65, is the first woman to hold the post since the Academy’s foundation […]
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St Albans names organist because Winchester can’t
The confusion over cathedral music just deepened. St Alban’s has issued this news: We are delighted to share with you that Oliver Morrell, our Organ Scholar here at St Albans Cathedral, will be moving to […]
%20Ali%20Wright.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Contemporary contrasts: Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci make highly satisfying double bill at Opera Holland Park")
Contemporary contrasts: Wolf-Ferrari’s Il segreto di Susanna and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci make highly satisfying double bill at Opera Holland Park
Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna – John Savournin – Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna; Clare Presland, Richard Burkhard, John Savournin, director: John Wilkie, conductor: John AndrewsRuggiero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci; […]
Nashville Symphony fires four VPs
We hear the Nashville Symphony is in trouble. Insiders tell us that four vice presidents – Development, Human Resources, Communications and Concert Operations & Production – along with six junior staff members have been laid […]
Queer and Trans Music Therapy
Introducing a new publication from Oxford Music Press: The Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy Edited by Colin Andrew Lee Explores queer and trans issues in music therapy, an emerging and rapidly evolving […]
Top tenor starts own label
The Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez will launch Florez Records in October. The debut release will be zarazuela songs, accompanied by the Peruvian youth otherstra, conductor Ana Maria Patiño-Osorio. Press release below. The multi award […]
Death of a formative English soprano, 96
We have been informed by people who have spoken to her daughter that the wonderful English soprano April Cantelo has died in Oxfordshire at the age of 96. A pupil of Britten’s associate Joan Cross, […]
Cancer claims BBC Proms composer
The death has been announced of the composer and pianist Sarah Gibson, a member of the piano duet Hocket and a core artist of LA-based Piano Spheres, which commissions and promotes new works for piano. […]
Halle Orchestra names new leader
The Manchester orchestra has appointed Emily Davis-Robb as co-leader (concertmaster) alongside Roberto Ruisi. She has been, until now, concertmaster of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in Norway. She says: ‘Thrilled (and very humbled) to share this […]
From Estonia with love: Neeme Järvi conducts Lalo
What joy this disc brings! We previously met Neeme Järvi and his Estonian orchestra here; when it comes to Lalo, they are on top form, and supported by one of Chandos’ best recordings. I vaguely […]
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