The Pittsburgh Symphony has promoted violinist Justine Campagna to Associate Concertmaster and Dylan Naroff to Assistant Concertmaster. In the cellos, Dale Jeong has been named Associate Principal Cello and Yun-Ya Lo joins as a section […]
The Peruvian Dayner Tafur-Díaz has won the Siemens Conductors Competition with a prize of studying in the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Tafur-Díaz, 26, stood out among 68 contestants from 29 countries. The post […]
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The Shire Hall, Presteigne; photographed by Percy Benzie Abery c. 1910s This year’s Presteigne Festival, the 42nd, runs from 22 to 26 August 2024, bringing music and art to the Welsh Marches. For 2024, the festival […]
Founded four years ago by artistic director Joshua Ballance, the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival is returning with three concerts from 29 June to 12 July 2024 at St John the Baptist Church and the new […]
Melia Simonot, winner of inaugural BBC Radio Scotland Young Classical Musician of the Year 21-year-old accordion player Melia Simonot was announced as the winner of BBC Radio Scotland’s inaugural Young Classical Musician of the Year competition, […]
Pasadena Roof Orchestra at Green Room in 2023 At a time when arts funding is at a perilous low, it is heartening to see a new venture thriving. Green Room launched last year, it is […]
The exiled Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov paid a call yesterday on his contemporary Arvo Pärt in his Estonian retreat. The Estonia Hall in Talinn is putting on a Silvestrov concert tonight. The post Two composers […]
Two weeks after the passing of the Geneva and Paris opera chief Hugues Gall, he has been followed by his longstanding partner, the dancer and choreigrapher Eric Vu-An. Eric was 60. He died of cancer […]
The Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition has been won by the South Korean baritone Jungrae Noah Kim. Of the 121 contestants from 39 nations who made it into the finals in the Latvian town of […]
Birmingham Opera Company is about to perform Tippett’s opera New Year. It is an extremely rare event, dividing opinions sharply on itsm merits. Keith Warner will direct. BOC Music Director Alpesh Chauhan will conduct the […]
