classical music

The Detroit Symphony has appointed Gracie Potter as its principal trombone. She 21, from Phoenix, Arizona.       The post Phoenix rises in Detroit appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Orchestre National de France has named its next chief conductor to succeed Cristian Macelaru (who’s heading to Cincinnati). The incoming boss will be Philippe Jordan, music director of the Vienna State Opera, whose tenure […]

The Coachella Festival has released its spring 2025 highlights. It includes a ‘first-of-its-kind’ performance by Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, some way down the bill behind Lady Gaga, Missy Eliott, Charli XCX and […]

More news from the valleys: The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama has announced Dame Shirley Bassey as its President for the next three years. She succeeds HM King Charles who, when Prince of […]

The Divine Art Recordings Group, specialising in clerical, quirky and unexpected music, has been bought overnight by First Inversion, LLC, of Fort Worth, Texas. Stared in a Northumberland villahe church in 1992 by an enmterprising […]

The high-flying Festival at Aix-en-Provence has appointed Olivier Leymarie as Deputy General Director, understudy to Pierre Audi. Leymarie, who starts in January, is presently MD of the Ensemble intercontemporain in Paris. The post Aix adds […]

Eyebrows rose in April last year when the struggling Philharmonia Orchestra added a new name to its masthead. The venerable Sir John  Eliot Gardiner was to be Principal Guest Conductor Emeritus of the Philharmonia Orchestra. […]

The French cellist Ophélie Gaillard, whose 1737 Goffriller was taken by housebreakers while her family were asleep at home, has been reunited with the instrument, and with two precious bows that were also taken. Three […]

Gianfranco Mariotti, who founded the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro in 1980, died yesterday at the age of 91. He was Sovrintendente of the festival for 38 seasons, stepping down in 2017. He put Pesaro […]