The Australian compilation brand Eloquence has come up with a set of recordings acknowledging the life’s work of Otto Gerdes, best known as Herbert von Karajan’s main producer on Deutsche Grammophon. Gerdes was also a […]
Have ever seen an operatic performance and wondered about a character’s backstory and what drives them? Tenor Anthony Flaum founded Prologue Opera to answer such questions. Based in Sussex, the company believes opera, as an artform, […]
Side-By-Side – Brixton Chamber Orchestra & Lambeth school children, conductor Matthew O’Keeffe – Church of St John the Divine, Kennington On Friday 13 June 2025 at the Church of St John the Divine in Kennington, […]
The funeral took place today of Wlodzimierz Siedlik, director of the Polish Radio Choir in Kraków and of the Kraków Academic Choir of the Jagiellonian University. He was head of the Paderewski Centre and professor […]
The death has been made known of José de Felipe, founder and conductor of important elements in Madrid’s concert life. Educated in Moscow, where his parent were exiled during the Franco regime, founded the Children’s […]
From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, My professor earned commissions from my instrument purchase and the shop lied about its value. Advice? Dear Advice?, It’s not an uncommon thing to have a teacher earn […]
The judges of six conductor finalists at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra International Conducting Competition could not agree on which was the best, so they chose two. Yet another ludicrous conclusion. There are situations in life […]
You may recall the horrendous and unprovoked knife attack suffered by the Ecuadorian conductor Dante Anzolini almost two years ago in the Bronx. Dante has yet to recover fully from the assault. He tells us: […]
At the start of this year, the associate concertmaster of the Concertgebouw orchestra Tjeerd Top caused a storm in the dykes by moving to the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra as concertmaster. Old rivalries revived, rude words […]
Figures released on Friday by the Metropolitan Opera show that music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin was paid $2,045,038 in the year ending July 2024, a huge leap from his previous $1,307,583. Yannick is also music director […]
