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The auction house Tarisio has gone public on the private sale of a bow to New York Philharmonic concertmaster Frank Huang. The bow was made in 1864 by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume’s best Parisian bowman, Pierre […]

They are smiling in Cincinnati. Dianne Rosenberg, chair of the orchestra’s board of directors since 2022, and her husband, J. David Rosenberg, have pledged $10 million towards artistic and educational work and community engagement. The […]

The Israel composer Oded Zehavi attended the dress rehearsal today of György Kurtag’s late opera, Fin de Partie: There are similarities between Endgame and Wozzeck. Musical interpretation of great literary text is not easy: it […]

This is Martha on the eve of Yom Kippur visiting the beautiful synagogue that now serves as the Jewish Musem in Bucharest. photo: social media The post Martha Argerich at synagogue appeared first on Slippedisc.

A report from Jonathan Sutherland: Zubin Mehta made his debut with the Belgrade Philharmonic in 1958 immediately after winning the Liverpool International Conductors Competition. He was 22 years old. The Bombay-born maestro, now 88, has […]

The job advert below speaks for itself. The University of Minnesota in Duluth is seeking an Assistant/Associate Professor of Piano. The applicant is expected to have a DMA or PhD, along with ‘international and national […]

The death has been made known of Mat Heighway, a highly popular member of the Jersey Chamber Orchestra and Jersey Symphony Orchestra, among other ensembles. Mat was 46. Rosie Knighton has posted on Fb: ‘Terry […]

The Royal Conservatory of Brussels has appointed Lukas Liketi as Professor of Composition, starting immediately. Lukas, 59, lives in Miami and will commute monthly until he moves to Belgium next year. He is an Austrian […]

They’ve just been named: Violinist Shlomi Shahaf (17), born in Israel and raised in Ukraine, currently studying at the Purcell School Pianist Ryan Wang (17) from Vancouver, Canada, currently on a music scholarship at Eton […]

The singer-songwriter, with his wife Nancy Shevell, attended Yom Kippur services in Santiago, Chile, yesterday, at the Circulo Israelita synagogue. He is seen near the front of the congregation, wearing a white skullcap. Sir Paul […]