classical music

We have been notified of the passing of Marie-Noëlle Damien, a semi-finalist at the Queen Elisabeth Competition who made a couple of recordings for EMI. She was, for many years, a student of Evgeny Malinin. […]

A sound engineer at the BBC for the whole of his salaried life, Dave Silk was a nighttime legend on the Jazz circuit, playing silky bass like a master of old. Dave trained at the […]

This year’s Wolf Prize in Music will go to the Hungarian composer György Kurtág, who is 98. The citation says: György Kurtág is awarded the Wolf Prize for presenting a shining example of a true […]

The Hiong Kong Philharmonic has named the Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokowski as its music director from next year. He succeeds Jaap Van Zweden, who held the job for a dozen years whil juggling other appointments […]

From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, There’s a new player in our viola section and she wears a kind of hijab – a black headscarf that also covers her shoulders. For what I can […]

The exceptional soprano Louise Alder has given up on big management at AskonasHolt. She signed this morning with Maria Mot’s boutique (est. 2020), where she joins Gerald Finley, Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso, Huw Montague […]

ENO, which is shedding its orchestra in the move away from London, is advertising for an oerchestra manager. Should be an interesting job. The English National Opera (ENO) is inviting applications for the role of […]

The Council and Senate of the Weimar University of Music decided last night to close the Institute for Early Music. It’s not just Oxford and Cambridge that have devalued music studies. Weimar is reallocating its […]

Delighted to see a piece of original research by conductor-scholar (and exNYT critic) Will Crutchfield published in this weekend’s NY Times. Historians try to be precise, so it is awkward to admit that I can’t […]