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The young German conductor Dominik Beykirch has handed in his notice at the German National Theatre and Staatskapelle Weimar. Beykirch, now 32, was promoted to chief in the early months of Covid, having worked in […]

Ahmed Mater- Chronicles Click here to watch Ahmed Mater, an artist from Saudi Arabia whose art encompasses painting, photography, sculpture, land art, and all manner of expression, talks movingly about his work which is currently […]

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has just announced Dr. Mariko Silver — ‘a leader in the fields of philanthropy, education, government, and the arts’ — as its next President and Chief Executive Officer. The […]

The Royal Northern Sinfonia has conveyed the death of viola player Malcolm Critten, who stepped down recently after 37 years. A fabulous musician, an incredibly kind human being, and a passionate cyclist, Malcolm will be […]

The budget label made its critical breakthrough in the late 1990s with a cycle of Bruckner symphonies conducted by the little-known Canada-based conductor Georg Tintner. A Hitler exile from Vienna, Tintner brought idiomatic assurance to […]

In our exclusive list of long-serving orchestral players, Frances Darger came in at #2 for playing 70 years in the violins of the Utah Symphony. On retirement, twelve years ago, she found a new hobby […]

The Budapest Festival Orchestra will give a free concert on August 31 on Heroes’ Square with musicians from both sides of two conflicts. JS Bach’s concerto for two violins will feature Diana Tishchenko from Ukrainian […]

Message from Andreas Schrager: Leider muss ich aufgrund einer Infektion der oberen Atemwege die heutige Vorstellung „Parsifal“ absagen. Ich möchte mich bei allen, die sich meinetwegen Karten dafür gekauft hatten, aufrichtig entschuldigen. Diese Entzündung machte […]

To mark its 25th anniversary, the Dresden Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by a robot in a new work at the Hellerau Festival Hall in October. According to the orchestra, the rhythmic subtlety and cross-tempos […]

From an article by Emily O’Sullivan in The Left Berlin journal: I was hired some months ago by the Münchener Bach Orchester to lead the viola section during a performance of Mendelssohn’s monumental Elias. … […]