Welsh tenor wins London gold
Dafydd Jones won the ROSL 2024 Gold Medal, with a £15,000 prize, at the Wigmore Hall last night. The Gold Medal final was held at London’s Wigmore Hall where four soloists competed in the impressive […]
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The Netrebkos are back at La Scala
Anna Netrebko and husband Yusif Eyvazov star in next week’s new production of Puccini’s Turandot at La Scala, directed by Davide Livermore. No doubt North Korea will be celebrating the cultural cooperation. The post The […]
Sondra quits Covent Garden Japan tour
Message received: It is with great regret that Sondra Radvanovsky has had to withdraw from the title role of Turandot on The Royal Opera’s Japan tour due to a severe ear infection and sinusitis. She […]
What’s expected from a composer in residence
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2024 has engaged Lithuanian performance-based artist Lina Lapelytė as Composer in Residence. Her duties? Born in Kaunas, Lapelytė is known for a performance-based practice rooted in music, flirting with pop culture, […]
Winchester: It’s Murder in the Cathedral
Recent events are uncannily reminiscent of the T. S Eliot play, drawn from a memoir by a terrified Canterbury clerk. Here’s the 2024 update: Act 1 Director of Music Andrew Lumsden is dragged from the […]
New music, traditional Scottish fiddle music, puppets and more: Scottish Ensemble’s 2024/25 season
The Scottish Ensemble Collaboration is at the heart of the Scottish Ensemble’s recently announced 2024/25 season. A season that includes new work by Hannah Kendall, a new collaboration with fiddle player and violinist Donald Grant, […]
Pianist Yuki Negishi in recital
Gershwin, Kapustin, Bonds, Norton, Wave, Arlen/Jarrett Yuki Negishi (piano). Holy Trinity Church, South Woodford, 2pm, 16.06.2024 Gershwin Three Preludes (1926) Kapustin Contemplation, Op. 47 (1987) Margaret Bonds Troubled Water Christopher Norton Bulgarian Sketches (2023) Sally Wave Sunshine Droplets Falling in the […]
Music like no other: Icelandic composer Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson’s Stífluhringurinn
Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson: Stífluhringurinn; Caput Ensemble; Carrier RecordsReviewed 18 June 2024 Music like no other. The Icelandic composer returns with a long, single work for large ensemble that mines his fondness for contemplating timbres and […]
Birmingham Post lays into CBSO’s Emma Stenning
Christopher Morley, long-serving arts editor of the Birmingham Post, has written an op-ed today attacking its flailing management and failing reputation. Here goes: The name of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra glows […]
Aussie wins US orchestra
The Greensboro Symphony has named Christopher Dragon as its music director, the first in two decades. Born in Perth to Singapore parents, Dragon is also music director of the Wyoming Symphony. The post Aussie wins […]
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