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On of the reasons orchestras organise choral concerts is because amateur singers have families who usually book to hear them. Not in Birmingham, apparently. One of our moles tells us that, with three hours to […]

The Illinois Symphony Orchestra has signed Taichi Fukumura as music director, starting next month. He succeeds Ken Lam. Taichi Fukumura came second in the 2o23 Mahler conducting competition. He has received four Solti Foundation US […]

The high point of the Lucerne Strings performance in Istanbul was a hightailed intervention by a local stray. As soon as the cat saw there was no conductor, it quickened the tempo.   View this […]

The Orchestre de Paris has chosen Stéphanie Huang as principal cellist, it is reported in Brussels. The Belgian cellist, 28, audience favourite in the 2022 Queen Elisabeth competition, also starts as guest professor at the […]

This is the advance publicity pic for a mass joint performance by the Czech Philharmonic and the Bamberg Symphony of Mahler’s 7th symphony. The open-air concert will be conducted in Prague on September 11 by […]

The Italian conductor Daniele Gatti, new chief of the Staatskapelle Dresden, has taken another job as ‘artistic partner’ of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. The announcement has yet to be made. HK Phil lacks a […]

The pioneering early music group has posted: We mourn the passing of Jim Nicolson, one of Boston’s early music pioneers: musician, impresario, and one of the first participants in Camerata concerts. His benevolent, welcoming presence […]

Finnish and Estonian newspapers report that the wreckage of a civilian airliner shot down by the Russians on June 14, 1940 has been found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The plane had been […]

The LPC has named an associate conductor to shadow Artistic Director Neville Creed in his final season, and cover the next four years. She is Victoria (Tori) Longdon, Principal Conductor of the Covent Garden Chorus. […]

The rising Finn Tarmo Peltokoski, at 24 the youngest conductor ever signed by Deutsche Grammophon, talks to BR about his formative influences: ‘I don’t really come from a musical family, but Mozart’s music was always […]