classical music

Friends have reported the death of Nicholas Kynaston, the universally admired English organist, at the age of 83. Jeremy Filsell, outgoing director of music at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, writes: RIP Nicolas […]

Many years ago I used to work at that peculiar custom-built round building which was the BBC Television Centre. It was a stange and inconvenient place to work. The studios were far from the offices, the […]

Wigmore Hall’s Under 35s Scheme gives access to world-class music for just £5 per ticket.  Enjoy performances from artists such as Gautier Capuçon, Augustin Hadelich, Les Arts Florissants with William Christie, Chiaroscuro Quartet, Marlis Petersen […]

Local philanthropist Penelope Steiner has signed a check to her favourite opera house, where she is deputy board chair. The gift is described as ‘unprecedented, unrestricted’. The post Chicago Lyric receives $25 million unrestricted gift […]

The Metropolitan Opera has appointed Hiroshi Nakachi from Oaka, Japan, as its new tuba player. He plays in Aida tonight. The post Met hires tuba appeared first on Slippedisc.

The orchestra and its music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin have chosen three new cellists – one Chinese, one from Taiwan and an Israeli. Jiayin He, from Shanghai, is presently principal cello in the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. […]

We hear that the Teatro Sancarlo in Naples, which evicted the Frenchman Stéphane Lissner on government orders, is about to instal Fulvio Macciardi of Bologna as his successor as sovrintendente. Macciardi hired Oksana Lyniv in […]

The CBSO chief conductor Kazuki Yamada has been awarded the 56th Suntory Music Award ‘for notable contributions to the development of Western-style music in Japan’. The prize is worth about £35,000. The post Birmingham maestor […]