classical music

The Romanian soprano made a fuss over an encore sung by a Korean tenor. The public had the final say. First video of the incident has just reached Bucharest, where it’s leading the news.   […]

Cellist Frances Borowsky offered to entertain bored passengers. She tells slippedisc.com: ‘Navigating the tight spaces with my bow and instrument was no small feat! Even sitting diagonally into the throughway required that I tilt the […]

Members of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus voted unanimously last night to authorize a strike. The vote polled 98.1% of eligible members. The first strike is likely to hit Verdi’s Requiem on Thursday. The orchestra […]

We hear that Sir John Eliot Gardiner has been summoned by the Orchestra Mozart to stand in for Daniele Gatti, who has fallen sick. He will conduct Beethoven’s 8th and 9th symphonies on Thursday in […]

A misconduct panel has imposed an indefinite teaching ban on Dale Wills, a former music teacher at Marlborough College. It found that Wills, 42, ‘made inappropriate comments and failed to maintain professional boundaries’. He exchanged […]

We hear that the Belgian early-music orchestra Anima Eterna has sacked its founder Jos Van Immerseel for ‘persistent aggressive behavior’. Immerseel, 78, is one of the leaders of the period-instrument movement. He founded the orchestra […]

Remember this headline: Beethoven Competition is won by chairman’s pupil? Well, Pavel Gililov has done it again. The winner of the Hummel Piano Competition, Russia’s Anastasiia Kliuchereva, studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Gililov. […]

The peripatetic pianist, presently on tour with the London Symphony Orchestra, has erased her global management Intermusica from her website. Intermusica, who have yet to remove her from their artists list, are not responding to […]

When its founders retired last year it looked like Dots Music Camden would be lost forever. Dots is one of about five music shops in London that sell a full range of instruments and sheet […]