Andrés Salado has been appointed principal and artistic director of the Costa Rica National Symphony Orchestra, starting this month. Salado is presently in charge of Spain’s Extremadura Orchestra. The post Baton twirl: Costa Rica imports […]
Decca Records US has signed the harpist Ashley Jackson who mixes classical music with Black spirituals. Ashley’s debut album, Take Me To The Water, is out next month. Sample it here. The post Label news: […]
In May last year, Rice University in Texas fired horn professor William VerMeulen after allegations of sexual misconduct with female students, which he denied. VerMeulen was suspended for two months from playing in the Houston […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: There are days when only Elgar will do. When the skies are low and the politics grim, a wash of Elgarian orchestral colour relieves existential gloom like no […]
The young Turkish violinist Laçin Akyol, a music student in Switzerland, has been killed by a speeding car while visiting home in Mersin. The driver has been placed under house arrest. Laçin, whose parents are […]
David Krauss’s guest this week on Speaking Soundly is jazz singer and Macarthur Fellow Cécile McLorin Salvant, who comes out as a Puccini obssessive. She says: ‘I wonder what it would be like to be […]
2024 New Voices Singing Competition: judging panel – Sir Andrew Lawson-Tancred, Robert Ogden, Edward Gardner OBE, Sholto Kynoch, Judith le Breuilly, George Ireland, Sir John Tomlinson; winners – Clara Orif and Jack Redman The New Voices […]
Atsushi Sakai (viola da gamba) and Bruno Helstroffer (theorbo) at PS.Halle, Einbeck for the 2024 Internationale Händel Festspiele Göttingen This year’s Göttingen International Handel Festival takes place from 16 to 25 May 2025, once more […]
Although nothing has shown up on their website, promoters of the current US tour of the Hagen Quartet have proclaimed it as their last. The Austrian quartet, comprising twp brothers and two sisters (one of […]
The saxophonist Andrei Shabanov, who is registered disabled, has been sentenced to six years in prison for posting anti-war messages nd taking part in demontstrations. Shabanov (pictured) has psoriatic arthritis, an autoimmune disease that will […]
