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We hear that Matias Naske has appointed a new head of artistic planning at the Konzerthaus in place of  Rico Gulda, who is leaving after 12 years. The newcomer is Ann-Paulin Steigerwald,  Head of Concerts […]

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has promoted Robert McGrath to President and CEO. He has been with the orchestra for 13 years, four of them as COO, and he gets on well with music director Cristian […]

The Curtis Institute of Music has outbid two other parties to buy the nearby Art Alliance building. It belonged to the University of Arts, which filed for bankruptcy last September. Curtis bid $7.5 million for […]

Dorn Music, sometimes regarded as a wild card in the agency business, has just grabbed two soloists from other firms. Pianist Martin Helmschen has joined from K D Schmid. And cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker has signed […]

Vsevolod Nemolyaev, who danced 55 seasons as a soloist at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, latterly as a ballet director, has died at 87. He was the brother of the actress, Svetlana Nemolyaeva. The post Soviet dance […]

Herbert Blomstedt, 97, is conducting the Czech Philharmonic with Katia and Marielle Labeque. The post Pic of the day: Me, and my girls appeared first on Slippedisc.

The Royal Opera’s “Jenufa” By Alastair Macaulay Leoš Janáćek’s opera “Jenůfa” – one of the great works of the human spirit – takes a tragic situation, deepens it, and then transcends it. The unmarried Jenůfa […]

The San Francisco Chronicle carries an obituary for Mark Izu, a composer and bassist who was a central figure in the Asian American arts movement. Mark, who died of colon cancer, was 70. He curated […]

The BBC has decided to abolish Drama on 3, a regular slot for radio plays. The broadcaster cites financial pressures and claims, rightly, that listeners turn to Radio 3 for classical music, not drama – […]

In a sign he is winding down his future availability for opera engagements, the German tenor has announced an end to his career-long representation by the New York firm of Zemsky/Green. Kaufmann’s personal manager Bruce […]