I am never really sure about lists of things, the Top 50 Best whatevers. However, finding out that you are in such a list is terribly seductive, even if you wonder how the list has […]
The Philharmonia unfurled its new season today: The season also includes a collaboration with visual artists Gilbert & George, a genre-crossing heavy metal project, and an opera about the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match. […]
Every April for as long as I can remember I have ripped open the BBC Proms Guide a few days ahead of publication in search of coming summer thrills. A sad life, I know, but […]
The Jacksonville Symphony in Florida, which recently banked an anonymous $15 million donation, has just received a $3 million top-up from the Terry Family Foundation. The orchestra says: ‘This remarkable gift will strengthen the Symphony’s […]
The NY Times has a soft feature today about its favourite pianist Jeremy Denk choosing a new piano for the Frick. He has a choice of three, all Steinways. America knows no other concert brand. […]
The rising composer Clemens K. Thomas had an opera, ‘Dollhouse’, premiered in Hamburg a few months back. Now he’s putting on an orchestral piece called ‘Girls und Panzer’. Tricky, right? Thomas explains: I was commissioned […]
Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival runs from 23 to 25 May. Before the festival, an extra event features a Georgian Party Music Workshop for young people. Young musicians aged between 7 to 12 […]
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, cellist Senja Rummukainan & conductor Ryan Bancroft at 2024 Lichfield Festival (Photo: Tyler Whiting) For 11 days in July, the Lichfield Festival will be bringing music, performance, comedy and dance […]
We understand that Andre Schoch, principal of the Berlin Philharmonic, has left the orchestra to be professor of trumpet at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Mannheim. Schoch, 37, joined the Berlin Phil in 2017 […]
David Zinman, former music director of the Baltimore Symphony and Tonhalle Zurich, has lost his beloved wife. He writes: It is with great sorrow that we mourn the passing of dear Mary She was a […]
