classical music

The University of Michigan has become notorious for misdemeanours in its music department. Recent mendacities include: • Voice Professor David Daniels was promoted then fired for sexually assaulting a student.   • Violin Professor Stephen […]

The death has been made known of Günther Beetz, founder member of German Brass and trumpet professor at Musikhochschule Mannheim. His influence on trumpet playing was far greater than his fame. The post Top trumpet […]

With a double change of violinist and violist, David Harrington is the last survivor of the group he founded in 1973. ‘We listened to several hundred of each instrument,’ Harrington told the San Francisco Chronicle. […]

The BBC Proms schedule, made public last night, contains plenty of temptations. – There’s the Vienna Philharmonic, rarely spotted in London nowadays, playing a cheerful pair of symphonies, Bruckner 9 and Tchaikovsky Pathetique. – My […]

The Solti Foundation US has given its annual $30k grant to conductor Holly Hyun Choe. She’s a former assistant to Paavo Järvi and Gustavo Dudamel, now conducting the chamber orchestra Ensemble Reflektor. From next year […]

The Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA has named Michael Beckerman as its new dean. Beckerman is a proper scholar, probably the foremost non-Czech expert on the life and works of Antonin Dvorak. The […]

The orchestra has confirmed Ryan Fleur as CEO, replacing Mathias Tarnopolsky, who has gone to the New York Phil. Fleur has acted in an interim capacity since Tarnopolsky left in January. Fleur has been part […]