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The Red – Original theatre Click here for tickets Marcus Brigstocke is best known for his stand-up comedy and as a regular performer and writer on BBC Radio 4  so it’s somewhat surprising to find […]

Watch this from the current Verbier season. She’s Swiss, 19 years old, from Lausanne. The post Not the soloist, watch the cello appeared first on Slippedisc.

The University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music has awarded Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music to Seth Parker Woods. He writes: This honor comes as a total surprise when I got […]

Conductor Oksana Lyniv welcomes her Youth Orchestra of Ukraine: Every coming together is so precious for us! Here is the moment then the bus finally arrived from Lviv, Ukraine making 55 hours trip. Many of […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: If it’s summer music you’re after, it doesn’t come much sunnier than this. Castelnuovo-Tedesco – it translates as Newcastle German – was a Florentine who traced his lineage […]

Violinist Chris Wu has retired from the orchestra after 36 years. In a parting interview with the Post-Gazette, he makes caustic comments about life in the orchestra. Unfortunately, the headlines are all we can see […]

The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera has chosen Ilya Ram as Music Director, only the fourth in 91 years. Ram, 33, is presently in charge of the orchestra at Leipzig University. Back home in Tel Aviv, […]

The founder of Chicago Baroque Ensemble John Mark Rozendaal was arrested yesterday while playing his cello in a stop-oil protest outside Citibank headquarters in New York. Rozendaal, 63, was the subject of a restraining order, […]

The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra has just announced the Swiss Lorenzo Viotti as its next music director. Viotti, presently with Netherlands Opera, is known best for his narcissitic selfies on social media.   Press release: Tokyo […]

The Canada-born soloist Jean Guihen Queyras is heading for Ukraine to bring relief to the suffering. He writes: Dear friends, In two weeks, I will be travelling to Kyiv to give a concert with Camerata […]