We understand that principal trombone Jay Friedman will retired from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in September 2025. He may well be currently the longest serving principal player in any leading orchestra worldwide. Auditions have been […]
We are sad to learn of the death of Yehudi Menuhin’s beloved daughter Zamira, a benign and constructive figure in musical affairs. The child of Menuhin’s first marriage to Nola Nicholas, he have her the […]
The Russian pianist Pavel Kushner died today in a Birobidzhan detention center while awaiting trial for allegedly ‘inciting terrorism’. His offence was to read anti-Putin poems on a Youtube channel with five subscribers. Kushner went […]
The Brazilian cellist Antonio Meneses, a member of the former Beaux Arts Trio, died today of brain cancer. He announced the diagnosis less than a month ago. Winner of the cello section of the 1982 […]
Hope – Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jason Robert Brown Click here to watch It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the the Tony Award winning Broadway leading man, Brian Stokes Mitchel, so I’m always […]
The Chinese-American pianist is playing a four-hand recital with the Icelandic star Víkingur Ólafsson one night in November. Seats in the main stalls area of the Royal Festival Hall are priced at £160. That’s steep. […]
The Minnesota Orchestra has uploaded Gabriela Montero’s decidedly political concerto on those who ‘hold our continent hostage to tyranny’. The post A concerto against the Maduro regime appeared first on Slippedisc.
Ahead of the arrival of Cristian Macelaru as music director, musicians in the Cincinnati Symphony have agreed a new wage deal. The basic salary will rise almost a quarter over the next five years, the […]
And the poster photograph is light-years out of date. Otherwise, if you’ve nothing better to do on a Monday night in Palm Beach…. th The post Tickets for Anna Netrebko start at $1,250 appeared first […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Did Bartók play klezmer? The Hungarian composer enthused over many authentic forms of folk music and spent his summers tracking them down across the Balkans, the Iberian peninsula […]
