classical music

A group of musicians led by the harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani put up a petition overnight, urging the Ghent Festival of Flanders to reconsider its cancellation of a Munich Philharmonic concert, a ban imposed because the […]

The Louisville conductor Teddy Abrams is to be Ojai’s next Artistic and Executive Director from September next year. He succeeds Ara Guzelimian, who has planned the next festival together with Esa-Pekka Salonen. Abrams, a protege […]

Ever since he parted from Yuja Wang, the multi-job Finnish conductor has been going out with a Norwegian violinist Amanda Håøy Horn. Amanda has been deputising in the strings of the Oslo Philharmonic, amid some […]

The footballer Jamie Vardy, as famous at his wife’s side in the law courts as he is on the pitch, has secured a free transfer this season to Italian Serie A club Cremonese. Both husband […]

The Flanders Festival Ghent, under pressure from activist groups and Belgian political authorities, has disinvited the Munich Philharmonic from a planned concert on September 18th. The reason given for the cancellation was that Lahav Shani, […]

The Athens Symphony Orchestra has called off a November concert with Denis Matsuev, an occasional adviser to Vladimir Putin. It said: ‘Throughout its many years of activity, the Orchestra has served artistic excellence as well […]

In the coming season of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the prolific conducting teacher Jorma Panula will share a concert with his latest produgy, Maximilian Fagerlund. Panula is 95 years old, Fagerlund 18. The son of […]

The new pressure group has published a list of a couple of hundred signees. Only half a dozen are familiar names: Jordi Savall (pic) Sean Shibe Laurence Cummings Christina Pluhar Sophie Daneman Michael Barenboim Vera […]