John Savournin The intriguing game of musical dominos in arts administration continues. Earlier this year it was announced the Guy Verrall-Withers, co-founder and artistic director of Waterperry Opera Festival, was becoming director of audiences & impact […]
A tweeter posted this list of ‘top’ 7th symphonies: 1. Beethoven 2. Bruckner 3. Mahler 4. Dvorak 5. Sibelius 6. Arnold 7. Shostakovich 8. Rubbra 9. Prokofiev 10. Glazunov I’d replace half of them. 1 […]
Rehearsal for Uprooted – Garsington Opera Youth Company On 29 July 2025, Garsington Opera Youth Company joins forces with Sinfonia Smith Square to present Uprooted, a new opera by composer Hannah Conway and librettist Hazel […]
Having emerged from the Aldeburgh Festival [see Tony’s review of the closing concerts], Snape Maltings is gearing up for this year’s Summer at Snape, a month-long celebration of music running from 26 July – 31 August […]
The Juneau Symphony has picked Brad Hogarth from a shortlist of four; he starts in September. Hogarth is associate professor of conducting at San Francisco State University and associate conductor of the Monterey Symphony. He […]
The death has been made known of Fox Fehling, a CSO violinist from 1979 until her retirement three years ago. Fox was 76. Originally from Iowa, she was the first winner of the Mische Elman […]
Slippedisc.com congratulates the German-Austrian tenor and welcomes him to the club of the third generation. Kaufmann’s married daughter Charlotte Kaufmann, 27, has given birth to a baby girl, her first child. Jonas Kaufmann, 55, is […]
It has been announced overnight that the next director of the Ruhrtriennale is to be Lydia Steier, an opera director who has made her name in Lucerne and Vienna. Steier, 47, is from Connecticut, granddaughter […]
Ensemble Ricercata (Ivan Šiller, Tomáš Boroš, piano). Large Concert Studio of Slovak Radio, Bratislava, 14.06.2025 Satie Trois morceaux en forme de poire James Tenney Three Pages in the Shape of a Pear (in celebration of […]
HarrisonParrott have signed the Canadian pianist Ryan Wang, a year after he won BBC Young Musician of the Year. Wang is now 18. The photo is from 2013. The post BBC winner gets an agent […]
%20TallWall%20Media_Oxford%20Song.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "There was no closure here: four Irish women composers give voice to women of the Magdalene Laundries in remarkable performances from Lotte Betts-Dean & Deirdre Brenner in Oxford")
