We hear that Graham Walker, Director of the recently scrapped St John’s Voices Choir, has not been resting on laurels. He is the force behind the new Cambridge University Schola Cantorum, the university’s first liturgical […]
The death has been communicated of Dominic Cossa, a stalwart Met baritone in the 1970s and beyond. One record, he sang opposite Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti in L’elisir d’amore and in Handel’s Giulio Cesare […]
Many happy returns to Abdullah Ibrahim, South Africa’s wizard of Cape jazz improvisation. A refugee from apartheid, he has lived most of his adult life in New York, performing under the stage name Dollar Brand. […]
The rising Brazilian violinist Guido Sant’Anna made a headline or two in 2022 by becoming the first South American violinist to win Vienna’s Fritz Kreisler Competition. Guido was 17 at the time. Now 19, Guido […]
Every chamber music lover knows that Beethoven wrote a set of three string quartets in 1806 for Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador in Vienna. Razumovsky employed a house quartet, led by Beethoven’s friend Ignaz Schuppanzigh […]
The New York Times reported approvingly the other day that Atlanta Opera’s turnaround chief Tomer Zevulun made a handsome $700,000 in the company’s last financial year, parlayed down to $550,000 by some anxious PR. Zevulun […]
This is a joy. Delian exoticism at its finest: previously on Classical Explorer, we reported on a performance of his more famous Lakmé via Chelsea Opera Group at Cadogan Hall; now we preset a luxuriously […]
The Bernard Haitink Conducting Fellowship, founded by Patricia Haitink, has placed a young American on a two-year internship with Sir Simon Rattle at Munich’s BRSO. Sasha Scolnik-Brower, 29, was previously a conducting fellow at the […]
Having waltzed out of Intermusica, where staff could never do enough for her, our heroine has finally sealed a deal with Opus3, which is where she started out many walkouts and mergers ago. We hear […]
AskonasHolt has signed the Chinese pianist Junyan Chen, who came second in the recent Leeds competition. The winner, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, is already represented by Monika Felkel’s NY boutique agency. Junyan played a blinder in Rach […]
