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Having waltzed out of Intermusica, where staff could never do enough for her, our heroine has finally sealed a deal with Opus3, which is where she started out many walkouts and mergers ago. We hear […]

AskonasHolt has signed the Chinese pianist Junyan Chen, who came second in the recent Leeds competition. The winner, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, is already represented by Monika Felkel’s NY boutique agency. Junyan played a blinder in Rach […]

Richard William Pickar, Music Director of the Galveston Symphony Orchestra for 33 years (1979-2012) and principal clarinetist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra for 31 years (1959 -1990), died on Thursday, October 3, 2024, in Houston, […]

CMU reports that Naxos has filed suit in Tennessee against Kuke Music, a classical subscription service in China. It claims Kuke owes $1.9 million in unpaid fees. CMU says: The legal dispute is presumably problematic […]

The SA Philharmonic has cancelled the rest of October while mired in disputes, financial and legal. Here’s the current state of affairs, by Sanford Nowlin: “The San Antonio Philharmonic has pushed back its Classics III […]

The full Philadelphia Orchestra will tour China from the end of this month until mid-November. Principal Guest Marin Alsop will conduct. They will give concerts in Beijing, Tianjin, Chengdu, and Haikou. Pipa player Wu Man […]

Jonas is out for a month. Nous sommes navrés de vous annoncer que Jonas Kaufmann, atteint du Covid 19, se voit contraint de reporter son concert prévu le mercredi 9 octobre à 20 h au […]

Describing itself as ‘as one of the world’s most notable classical music festivals’, InClassica International Music Festival will be resident next April at Dubai Opera ‘with a special edition dedicated to marking the 55th birthday […]

From Steve Swartz in Baltimore: Baltimore, MD – Due to Sunday morning’s underground fire in downtown Baltimore and the resulting loss of electrical power, the Sunday matinee performance of composer Michael Hersch’s new opera, and […]

Denmark’s highest musical honour, the Leonie Sonning Music Prize worth 133,000 Euros, has stayed close to home. The 2025 winner, announced today, is the Danish String Quartet. They say: ‘We are thankful and humbled. Denmark […]