Among Gustavo Dudamel’s plans for his first season at the New York Philharmonic, announced yesterday, is the appointment of the British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason as artist in residence. Also eye-catching is a new orchestral version, […]
Press release: Vienna, March 2025 – To mark the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II, the Vienna Tourist Board and the European Space Agency (ESA), in partnership with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, are sending his masterpiece […]
One of the new Trumpist on the board of the Washington Performing Arts Center has been blue-sky thinking with the NY Times. Businessman Paolo Zampolli, who claims to have introduced Trump to his present wife […]
The young Danish conductor Christian Øland has been named chief of the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra. Based in southern Jutland, the orchestra covers both Denmark and northern Germany. Øland, 30, is a graduate of the Sibelius […]
Steve Custer, who has died aged 81, won an LA Phil audition with Zubin Mehta in 1974 and played in the cello section until 2010. He appeared in more than 5,000 concerts following the batons […]
The death has been recorded, aged 94 of the Scottish conductor James Lockhart, a formative force in British and German opera houses. Early in his career, Lockhart spent five years in Cardiff as music director […]
Conway Hall Ethical Award: recipient Vivien Connacher and members of Songhaven with Conway Hall’s Carmen D’Cruz Last week (6 March 2025) Conway Hall presented its 2025 Ethical Gala, the annual celebration of their mission to […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Power and poetry: all-Prokofiev programme from Igor Levit, Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer at Royal Festival Hall")
Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes – Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra – Southbank Centre (Photo: Pete Woodhead for the Southbank Centre) Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes; Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor; selection […]
Mozart, Mahler Katia & Marielle Labèque (pianos); Czech Philharmonic Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov. Barbican Hall, London, 09.03.2025 Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos in E flat, K 365 (1779) Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor (1901/2) […]
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is mourning its former artistic director and viola player, Christof Huebner, who died last week in Baltimore, aged 61. An Austrian, born in Graz, Christoph won an orchestral audition at 19 […]
