Manchester seeks Chinese music students
Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music have launched a ‘new Orchestral Pathway for talented young musicians from China’, aged 10 to 17. Basically, it seems that if they study at […]
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Americans mourn top organist, 89
We have been notified of the passing of Joan Lippincott, one of the foremost organ teachers of the past half century. An international soloist with two-dozen recordings to her name, Lippincott was Head of the […]
New wind at Lucerne Festival Academy
The death of the German composer Wolfgang Rihm has left a vacancy at the festival’s next-gen orchestra. Rihm’s successor, announced today, is to be the German composer and clarinettist Jörg Widmann. The post New wind […]
Cologne is paralysed by UXB
Three unexploded World War Two bombs have caused the cancellation of tonight’s WDR Symphony concert in Cologne. The whole town centre has been shut off since eight this morning, with some 200,000 residents evacuated. It […]
Kirklees Concert Season 2025/26: Orchestra of Opera North’s year round concert season in Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town Halls
Elena Urioste, Gary Walker & Orchestra of Opera North at Huddersfield Town Hall The Kirklees Concert Season is a year-round programme of concerts presented by Opera North and Kirklees Council in Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town […]
Festival of Musical Ideas: Gresham College holds inaugural festival fusing music with science and the humanities
Gresham College is hosting the inaugural Festival of Musical Ideas on Friday 20 June 2025 at the college in Barnard’s Inn Hall, Holborn. Gresham Professors will present a day of learning, exploration and music, fusing music with science and the […]
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam at Wigmore Hall
Mozart, Tchaikovsky Dudok Quartet Amsterdam. Wigmore Hall, 1pm, 01.06.2025 Mozart String Quartet No. 14 in G, K 387 (1782) Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 2 in F, Op. 22 (1874) The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam comprises Judith […]
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A Capella Summer School: work with Frances M Lynch of Electric Voice Theatre at Conway Hall
Performer, composer, director Frances M Lynch, who is the artistic director of Electric Voice Theatre, the contemporary music-theatre acappella ensemble, is running an A Capella Summer School open to singers aged 18 to 35 from […]
Chicago hires Met’s ex-chorus master
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has appointed Donald Palumbo as choirmaster of the Chicago Symphony Chorus from July 1. Palumbo retired recently after 17 years leading the Metropolitan Opera Chorus in New York. The post Chicago […]
All-boys final at Van Cliburn – 3 US, 2 Russian
The final round begins tonight in Fort Worth. The six contestants are: Carter Johnson, Canada/United States, 28 Philipp Lynov, Russia, 26 Evren Ozel, United States, 26 Aristo Sham, Hong Kong China, 29 Vitaly Starikov, Israel/Russia, […]
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