Where Art Meets Science: Martin, Campbell, Mendelssohn-Hensel, plus Professor Dame Athene Donald (speaker). Marsyas Trio; Rosalyn Hart, Emily Chung (violins); Rachel Stott (viola); Ewan Campbell (double-bass). Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Cambridge, 28.09.2024 Manu Martin Lim […]
Composer and pianist Louis Mander, fresh from the premiere of his opera The Waves (inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel) at the Oslo Opera Festival, is joining forces with narrator Zeb Soanes and tenor Will Diggle for an […]
ETERNITY IN AN HOUR – Jess Dandy and Keval Shah by Clare Park On Tuesday 15 October at Oxford International Song Festival, contralto Jess Dandy and pianist Keval Shah will give the world premiere of […]
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Jonathan Dove’s The Monster in the Maze was commissioned and first performed in 2015 by the Berlin Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle. A modern re-telling of the myth of the Minotaur (there is […]
It has emerged that the all-poweful chief of the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky has ordered a 500-seat concert hall in his home town of Vladikavkaz, in northern Ossetia. The hall was constructed in an abandoned […]
Pierre-Gabriel BuffardinPrincipal flautist in the Hofkappelle in Dresden Bach: Cantatas BWV94, BWV114, BWV8, Buffardin: Flute Concerto in E minor; Hilary Cronin, Clint van der Linde, Charles Daniels, Edward Grint, Rachel Brown, London Handel Players, Adrian Butterfield; […]
The violinist Jonny Gandelsman of New Paltz, NY, has been granted a MacArthur Fellowship for ‘reimagining classical works and nurturing the creation of new music across styles and genres’. The Moscow-born artist receives a $800,000, […]
A group of singers rehearsing an October 7 memorial concert were forced to take shelter yesterday in the basement of the Israel Opera as 181 ballistic missiles from Iran rained down. Underground, they carried on […]
The orchestra has informed patrons that its season-opening concerts last night and today in Tel Aviv are off ‘in vew of the extreme security situation’. The concerts featured Mendelssohn’s violin concerto with Maxim Vengerov and […]
A message to faculty from board chair Susan Rothman announced the replacement of the faculty senate with a ‘transitional faculty council’, comprising five teachers and three administrators. This, she pledges, is a step towards shared […]
