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 […]
On Sunday 27 April 2025, the Zoffany Ensemble will be presenting a fascinating programme at Conway Hall for their Sunday concerts series at 6.30pm. The ensemble will be performing two 19th century nonets, by Louise […]
Bach: Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen – Olivier Stankiewicz, Lucy Crowe, ensemble led by Maria Włoszczowska – Wigmore Hall (taken from live stream) Bach: arias from Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen and Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, Concerto […]
AskonasHolt have signed the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Molinari, who has a qualification in surgery and medicine from the University of Padua. Originally from Riva del Garda, she started out playing flute before taking her Hippocratic […]
The Akademie der Künste has announced the death of Erhard Grosskopf, a prolific composer who described himself as ‘an architect who builds a house for music’. In 1971 he created the first spatial composition Hörmusik […]
The English record producer Roy Thomas Baker died at his home in Lake Havasu City, Arizona on Saturday. He was 78. Baker began working at Decca at age 14 and flourished in the early 1970s […]
A few days after the Dean’s departure, Winchester Cathedral has accepted the loss of The Pilgrims’ School, which is to be merged with Winchester College ahead of the next academic year. This looks positive for […]
The BBC is reporting that members of the Welsh National Opera orchestra have accepted a pay deal after a year of protests. The price is the loss of 10 positions, which are curretnyl vacant. WNO […]
