Music In The Round: Romantic Piano Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano). Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield, 11 am, 23.05.2024 Schumann Gesange der Frühe, Op. 133: No. 1 (1853) Fauré Nocturne No. 13 in B minor, Op. 119 (1921) Ramean Le […]
NYO Side by Side in Liverpool 42% of schools in England no longer enter any pupils for Music GCSE, and the number of pupils opting to do Music at A-Level has fallen by 45% between […]
After a lengthy audition process, the King’s Singers have chosen Piers Connor Kennedy as their next bass. He replaces Jonathan Howard, who departs after 14 years. Kennedy has held a composing residency at St Peter’s […]
The London Evening Standard is to stop printing five days a week and will aim to appear, possibly, just once a week. When I arrived at the Standard as Assistant Editor in 2002, we put […]
The Beverly Sills Artist Award 2024 has gone to Leah Hawkins, a graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Last season she sang the principal role of Louise/Betty in the Met premiere of […]
Conductor Ivan Fischer writes: It is with deep sadness that I share the grief of the family and the whole Hungarian music world: we have lost György Konrád, Pamacs, the wonderful violinist and friend. As […]
Arts Cancel England has just forced English Touring Opera to relocate to former steeltown Sheffield. Are they missing something here? Sheffield was chosen by ACE as the home for a National Centre for Popular Music. […]
The international soprano Claire Rutter has been made to suffer by persistent phone users. She tells slippedisc.com: I was rehearsing a Verdi Requiem in Liverpool Cathedral a few weeks ago. A guy started filming, a […]
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Euan Kemp, winner of Scottish Young Musicians Solo Performer of the Year 2024 (Photo: Ian Georgeson) Euan Kemp, 17-year-old Saxophonist from East Dunbartonshire has won the Scottish Young Musicians Solo Performer of the Year 2024 the […]
Kin – National Theatre At Home Click here to watch In 1932, Leah and her family escaped persecution and embarked on a journey from Yemen to Palestine.Ninety years later, her grandson Amit Lahav, Artistic Director […]
