The Swiss-Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has pulled out of an Australian Chamber Orchestra tour, citing injury. ACO’s director Richard Tognetti writes: ‘I am saddened to announce that director, violinist and composer Patricia Kopatchinskaja has withdrawn […]
Daniele Gatti, defeated by Myung Whun Chung in the race to succeed Riccardo Chailly at La Scala, has cancelled all his engagements at the theatre next season, according to La Repubblica. This may be wounded […]
The Helsinki jury has pronounced: Gabrielle Després (Canada, b.2000) Otto Antikainen (Finland, b.1999) Claire Wells (US, b.2001) Minami Yoshida (Japan, b.1998) Amia Janicki (Switzerland, b.1997) Sueye Park (South Korea, b.2000) The post Just in: […]
They have lost a good music director and can’t land another. So who jumps in? Reveal here. Have they got a drinking problem, too? Concert-only guests (21+) are invited to a complimentary preconcert reception featuring […]
Riccardo Chailly today presented his last season as music director . He will open with Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, directed by the Russian, Vasily Barkhatov. It will be the 12th time Chailly has conducted the […]
Graham Ross, Director of Music at Clare College, has been hospitalised for almost a fortnight after an assault in the centre of the town. He writes: Two weeks ago, at the end of a wonderful […]
Reports are still sketchy but it appears that Brazilian star Wagner Carvalho lost a finger while dancing Spartacus at the Kazan Opera and Ballet. The injury occurred in the first act as Carvalho fought a […]
For the second successive week, an unstarred soloist on a pianino tops the global streaming charts of Apple Classical. You read it here exclusively (and here’s the top 100). 1 Chopin intime Justin Taylor 2 […]
The UK-schooled French luthier Patrick Robin has died at 69 after a long illness. A graduate of the UK’s Newark School of Violin Making, he joined a group of restorers in Bremen before founding Atelier […]
Taina Elg, the only Finnish acress ever to have made it in Hollywood, has died at an advanced age. A prodigy at Finnish National Ballet, she moved on after the Russians bombed and occupied her […]
