classical music

The pianist has told a Chinese interview that he is big on Weibo, state-monitored social social media. He has to feed the beast: ‘I’m also creating my own vlogs now. I document every place I […]

The talented Ariane Matiakh, who lasted less than half a season in her first job at Halle, has renewed for a second three-year term at the Württembergischen Philharmonie Reutlingen. Good for her, good for them. […]

The Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival has fallen this year to Hayato Sumino. The Japanese pianist, known as ‘Cateen’, has a million Youtube subscribers. He is 29 and moves, the citation says, […]

The third page of the Times this morning is occupied by two stories that are not news. The first concerns a virtual reality device that is being pioneered by the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, […]

The Hochschule für Musik und Theater München has appointed Simon Mack to be professor of music theory. A German-born crossover composer, Mack could be mistaken for a younger version of Munich’s other Simon. New Simon […]

The National  Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC has hired two public-facing faces. Board member David Ginsberg is Vice President of Global Communications and Public Affairs at Meta. John Roloff, Vice President of Operations, has been […]

The Buxton Festival is putting out a call for students to form its orchestra. They previously employed the orchestra of Opera North. This is bad practice any way you look at it. The Musicians Union […]

The conductor has enjoyed a clear run until now. As music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 18 years he enjoyed the confidence of the musicians and the adulation of a star-struck audience. The […]

He tried to lift it, but missed the top notes. Photos from JK’s social media today. The post Jonas Kaufmann, piano shifter appeared first on Slippedisc.