Baltimore mourns first woman player
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has announced the death of Joan Champie, the first woman to be admitted to its ranks. Champie, who was 92, played second oboe from 1955 to 1962. She had a struggle […]
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Musicians Union attacks BBC for shrinking Strictly
The MU has launched a campaign to resintate the full band that played on Strictly Come Dancing before distancing measures were introduced during Covid. A mini-band continues to be used to accompany the dancers in […]
Haydn from Denmark: Symphonies 99-101
Hungarian conductor Ádám Fischer returns to Haydn: his complete recording of all of the symphonies with the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Here he is again, in a less remnant acoustic this time (the concert hall of […]
Moscow replaces conductor who fled
The Russian Ministry of Culture has finally named an artistic director for the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra, which has been headless for more than two years. Ivan Niforchin (pictured), 29, replaces Pavel Kogan who […]
Cities of Song: People, Places, Music: the Oxford International Song Festival is back with 70 events in 16 days exploring the cities that have inspired and influenced composers
The Oxford International Song Festival (formerly the Oxford Lieder Festival) is back for its 23rd year with 70 events in 16 days, from 11 to 26 October 2024. Under the title of Cities of Song: […]
Youth and Experience: 2024 Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival
Founded in 2009, cellist Natalie Clein’s Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival is celebrating Youth and Experience in its 2024 festival which runs from 29 August to 1 September 2024, featuring concerts set in the stunning […]
More Buffy the Vampire Slayer than German Romanticism: Gothic Opera’s Der Vampyr at the Grimeborn Festival
Marschner: Der Vampyr – Milena Knauß – Gothic Opera (Photo: Craig Fuller) Marschner: Der Vampyr, in a version by Julia Mintzer & Kelly Lovelady; Giuseppe Pellingra, Milena Knauß, Jack Roberts, Amber Reeves, Conall O’Neill, Madeleine […]
Cellist flits from one boutique to the next
The Belgian cellist Camille Thomas has left Liu Kotow Management in Hannover, which she joined five years ago. Thomas, 35, is now with Eleanor Ripman and Keynote Artists in London. She has a DG record […]
Aussie Jews respond to Melbourne Symphony climbdown
Message from the Australian Jewish Association in response to the MSO’s apology to the anti-Israel activist pianist Jayson Gillham: If the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra wants to engage in anti-Israel activism, why on earth would Jewish […]
This airline won’t board violas
Message from Florian Peelman, professor at the Hanns Eisler Academy in Berlin: I was denied boarding today on a Brussels Airlines flight from Brussels to Bilbao due to my viola case exceeding the baggage allowance […]
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