HarrisonParrott have nailed down Samuel Lee, Korean winner of the Malko Conducting Competition in Copenhagen. Lee, 34, is Associate Conductor at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The post Malko winner gets signed appeared first on Slippedisc.
It’s Asmik Grigorian with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conductor Mikko Franck. The post Watch 4 Last Songs – latest and loveliest appeared first on Slippedisc.
Message from Cincinnati Opera: As you may be aware, there was a police incident outside Music Hall on Thursday, June 27, just as our opening night performance of La Traviata (pic) was about to begin. […]
Plus ca change in the court’s decision on who owns copyright in Bolero: Maurice Ravel’s heiress, Evelyne Pen de Castel, has been ordered to pay one euro ‘in compensation for her damage resulting from the […]
The Italian-US tenor Lando Bartolini, who died today, had a rags trade to riches story. Unhappy working in his family’s textile factory in Prato, he moved to Philadelphia in 1966 and started taking voice lessons […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: What small labels do best is backing the owner’s hunches. BIS in Stockholm produced symphonies by Alfred Schnittke when he was unheard outside Russia. Hyperion in south London […]
The death this week of James Loughran called to mind a species of excellent British conductors who never pursued the limelight. Loughran’s 12 years at the Halle, succeeding the irreplaceable John Barbirolli, was a phenomenal […]
Richard Klein, principal of New York’s High School of Music and Art, has died, aged 94. He unified two schools in 1984, creating Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing […]
The chair of Dartington Trust, Lord David Triesman, has issued a six-monthly update, saying the financial situation is now stable. Of course, there is no summer school and festival. Here’s what he writes: Our earlier […]
The death has been announced of Jarmo Sermilä, former director of the Finnish Music Information Centre and YLE’s experimental studio. He was also curator of the Sibelius childhood home museum. The post Finnish composer, 85 […]
