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Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra has let it be known that Alexander Shelley will step down as music director a year from now, after 11 years in the podium. NAC Orchestra Managing Director Nelson McDougall […]

Independent Rajar monitoring figures, out today, show that the classical music station achieved 2.15m listeners in the past three months, the highest Q1 reach for at least ten years. The relexation stream, BBC Unwind, added […]

Makcim Fernandez Samodaiev, solo cellist of the Sibiu Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania, has reached breaking ppoint after two fruitless years of labour negotiations. He tells Slippedisc: Today, during the negotiations for the Collective Labor Agreement, […]

News from Sarasota, Fllorida: Longtime Sarasota Orchestra supporters Jack and Priscilla Schlegel have made a transformative $10 million gift to advance the future Music Center at 5701 Fruitville Road. Their investment marks a major milestone for […]

The renowned British lute and theorbo player, David Miller, has died at the age of 72. For four decades Dai – as he was universally known – played continuo on theorbo, chitarrone and baroque guitar […]

Franck Rabbio writes: It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce the passing of my father, Salvatore Rabbio, who died Monday night at the age of 90. Sal was the Principal Timpanist […]

The ex-Russian pianist joins David Krauss this week for Speaking Soundly. Kissin, the precisionist, admits to bring human. He makes mistajes like everyone else. On one occasion he ran out of encores and the audience […]

Message from Staatsoper Unter den Linden: Margot Friedländer (1921-2025) With Margot Friedländer, an extraordinary personality has died. In an impressive way, she testified to the horrors of the Holocaust and the crimes of the National […]

Newly installed as chief conductor of Danish National Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Øland was installed today as GMD in Magdeburg, starting in August. He’s 30, a graduate of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. The post Baton […]

The music director in Freiburg am Breisgau, André de Ridder, was today named music director of English National Opera. He starts in autumn 2027, by which time there may not be much left of the […]