Gstaad Menuhin Festival (2): Matinée des Jeunes Étoiles VI Georgii Moroz (violin); Marco Scilironi (piano). Gstaad Chapel, Gstaad, 1030am, 23.08.2025 Bartók Rhapsody for Violin and Piano, Sz 86 Moroz The Poet Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in […]
Remember when they didn’t start selling tickets until May? And everything sold out within hours. The Bayreuth Festival has just put its 150th anniversary festival on show, and partly on sale. Christian Thielemann will open […]
The death has been announced of Mariinsky soloist Sergei Aleksashkin, aged 72. He sang abroad at La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, the Washington Opera, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Rome Opera, Hamburg, Opéra National […]
From Inside Higher Ed: The University of Chicago’s Arts and Humanities Division is pausing new PhD student admissions for the 2026–27 academic year across all departments except philosophy and one music department program. The departments […]
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna and its symphony foundation have announced the death of Francesco Ernani, their Sovrintendente from 2011 t0 2015. He was 87. Before Bologna, Ernani was successively sovrintendente of the Arena di […]
The Proms have had a lucky year, with only one major cancellation. Here’s a bigger one, just in: Sir Simon Rattle must undergo routine surgery in the next few days so, regretfully, he has had […]
Sing for Pleasure training in action (Photo: Simon King) This month, Sing for Pleasure, the UK’s leading provider of choral conductor training, launched its newly updated Choral Conductor Training Programme. The Programme, is an expansion and […]
Slough Cultural Revival is a project led by Slough Arts Forum, a collective of over 50 arts organisations, and supported by Arts Council England, intended to ‘revive’ the town as a centre for creativity and innovation, and act […]
Brassworks at Woolwich Works Brassworks, Woolwich Works’ celebrations of all things brass returns to the multi-disciplinary cultural hub on the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich on Saturday 6 September 2025 with a parade through Woolwich, and a full […]
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in A-Major, Op. 72 (1946) Brahms Piano Quintet in F-Minor, Op. 34 (1865) Saanen Church, Switzerland, 21.08.2025 Saanen Church, Switzerland Dedicated to the great Beethoven Quartet, and premiered in Moscow […]
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