Missing teen cellist is found in London
Hanna Balcer, 14, who went missing in outer London, was brought home by police at 6am yesterday after being recognised by a member of the public from media appeals. Her mother said: ‘I can’t put […]
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Just in: Sudden death of top opera director
Shocking news has arrived of the death of Pierre Audi, director of the Aix-en-Provence Festival and one of the most influential creators of new works of opera. Pierre, who died in Beijing without warning during […]
Leeds winner finds agent
AskonasHolt has signed the Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, winner of the 2024 Leeds piano competition. He is from British Colombia, of Hungarian-Ukrainian heritage. The post Leeds winner finds agent appeared first on Slippedisc.
Free opera: The poet, the married woman and the only way out
One of opera’s greatest depictions of impossible love, Werther is based on Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Massenet thought long and hard about adapting Goethe’s story of a melancholy poet whose love for a married […]
Baton round: Argentine takes Delaware
The Delaware Symphony has named Michelle Di Russo as its next music director. She’s from Argentina, a former Dudamel Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a Taki-Alsop graduate. The post Baton round: Argentine takes […]
Toronto has new principal bassoon
Playing in the Orchestre symphonique de Québec for the past three years, Marlène Ngalissamy has been named principal bassoon of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Born in Moscow, Marlène moved to Canada at ten years and […]
Watch the other Korngold concerto
This one he wrote for Piatigorsky. It makesits first appearnce in the 1946 film, Deception. The post Watch the other Korngold concerto appeared first on Slippedisc.
Artist dumps agency
From pianist Frank Dupree: Thank you to everyone at IMG Artists for being part of my journey over the past 13 years! Special thanks to my managers Stefan P. Escher and Emma Farmer for their […]
Ivan Fischer mourns a musician ‘of beautiful style’
The conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra has issued a video, mourning principal oboe Victor Aviat, who has died in Berlin, aged 42, of an aggressive brain tumour. Watch Ivan’s tribute here. The post […]
Leonard Bernstein heirs still support Kennedy Center
A statement by the great man’s three children in the NY Times today: Our father, the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, liked to tell us about the time Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis called to ask him […]
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