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We hear that a new rector at Notre Dame de Paris has dismissed two organists and replaced them with an underqualified young man. A petition to rectify the situation is being signed by many of […]

The Japanese violinist Yuki Serino won the 40,000-Euro top prize at the new Città di Cremona Competition. Second was Shaoheng Zhong from China. In third place was Nurie Chung from South Korea. The Lithuanian Chamber […]

The violinist and violist Maya Meron, whose career was disrupted by the collapse of an exercise machine at the Hampstead Heartcore studio, has won a £250,000 immediate court award, with further damages still to be […]

The NY Times reports the death of Jean-Philippe Allard, founder of the jazz division at PolyGram France (now Universal). Allard revived the careers of two generations of sidelined jazz artists, having first failed at a […]

There is only one British contestant at this year’s Leeds piano competition, an event founded by piano teacher Fanny Waterman (pictured) to advance awareness of the instrument and its talented young performers. Just one. I […]

The violist Mathieu Herzog who quit the outstanding Quatuor Ébène a decade ago to pursue a conducting career, has been appointed artistic director of the Glanum Festival at Saint Rémy de Provence. The Orchestre Appassionato […]

The Wolverhampton Society has affixed a blue plaque to the house where one of the friends mentioned in Enigma Variations lived. Known to Elgar as Dorabella, Dora lived with her father the Rev Alfred Penny, […]

The Edinburgh International Festival has appointed two new heads of artistic management and music programming. Paul Sharp and Nick Zekulin will cover for director Nicola Benedetti, who is on maternity leave. Zekulin (pic) is general […]

The Pittsburgh Symphony has promoted violinist Justine Campagna to Associate Concertmaster and Dylan Naroff to Assistant Concertmaster. In the cellos, Dale Jeong has been named Associate Principal Cello and Yun-Ya Lo joins as a section […]

The Peruvian Dayner Tafur-Díaz has won the Siemens Conductors Competition with a prize of studying in the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Tafur-Díaz, 26, stood out among 68 contestants from 29 countries. The post […]