US opera conductor dies
Founder of the Opera Camerata of Washington, Micaele Sparacino was an instigator of operatic activity across the US. According to a colleague, he was found by a friend who went by for a wellness check […]
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Italy bans another pro-Putin musician
The city of Bologna has cancelled an August 5 concert by Alexander Romanovsky, a pianist who, according to the Liberal Democratic Party of Bologna, ‘played on the rubble of the theatre in Mariupol, a city […]
Sad passing of premier British tenor
We have been notified of the death yesterday of David Rendall, a dominant figure at Covent Garden from the late 1970s. Having sung solo in a Herbert von Karajan Bruckner Te Deum, he went on […]
Dr Watson of the high Cs
The populist tenor Russell Watson has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Greater Manchester ‘in recognition of his outstanding contribution to music and the arts’. Watson, 59, has survived two brain tumours. […]
Chamber Music America replaces lost Trump grants
From a press release: Chamber Music America Responds to NEA Funding Rescissions with New Grant Program. Together with the Sewell Family Foundation, CMA will provide $75,000 to organizations and ensembles that have lost federal funding. […]
LPO adds co-principal cello
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has named Henry Shapard as co-principal cellist. Shapard, 26, is presently principal of the Vancouver Symphony and professor of cello at the Vancouver Academy of Music. Also joining the cellos is […]
A 5 year-old performs at Carnegie Hall
The parents of Alec Van Khajadourian, from Los Angeles, are claiming he is the youngest person ever to play at Carnegie. He played two short pieces in the NY Classical Debut Awards Gala Concert on […]
Polish Baroque: Wrocław Baroque Ensemble present selections from Mikołaj Zieleński’s magnum opus
Gniezno Cathedral and Lake Jelonek, Poland, where Mikołaj Zieleński worked(Photo by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0/WikiMedia) Little is known of Mikołaj Zieleński beyond the fact that he published a major collection of works in 1611. On 14 August […]
Gilberto Gil’s singer daughter, RIP
The Brazilian vocalist Preta Gil has died in New York after a two-year battle with bowel cancer. She died, aged 50, at an airport hospital while on her way to fly home. Her father, former […]
Ladies in Bloomers: London Sinfonietta presents Omri Kochavi’s site-specific celebration of forgotten female gardeners at the Story Garden in Kings Cross
Women gardeners (Image courtesy of the Garden Museum) Fiona Davison‘s discovery of letters written by Olive Harrisson, a talented gardener denied a scholarship by the Royal Horticultural Society “on account of being female”, led to […]
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