Press release: Vienna, March 2025 – To mark the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II, the Vienna Tourist Board and the European Space Agency (ESA), in partnership with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, are sending his masterpiece […]
One of the new Trumpist on the board of the Washington Performing Arts Center has been blue-sky thinking with the NY Times. Businessman Paolo Zampolli, who claims to have introduced Trump to his present wife […]
The young Danish conductor Christian Øland has been named chief of the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra. Based in southern Jutland, the orchestra covers both Denmark and northern Germany. Øland, 30, is a graduate of the Sibelius […]
Steve Custer, who has died aged 81, won an LA Phil audition with Zubin Mehta in 1974 and played in the cello section until 2010. He appeared in more than 5,000 concerts following the batons […]
The death has been recorded, aged 94 of the Scottish conductor James Lockhart, a formative force in British and German opera houses. Early in his career, Lockhart spent five years in Cardiff as music director […]
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is mourning its former artistic director and viola player, Christof Huebner, who died last week in Baltimore, aged 61. An Austrian, born in Graz, Christoph won an orchestral audition at 19 […]
On violinist.com, Laurie Niles reports the private sale of the 1715 Baron Knoop Stradivarius violin for a world record $23 million. The last record was set in 2011 when the 1721 Lady Blunt went for […]
The Norwegian Radio Orchestra today chose Holly Choe as principal conductor. She fills the gap left by the Czech Petr Popelka, who resigned in 2023. Holly Hyun Choe was born in South Korea and raised […]
Review from Tel Aviv by Dan Yakir: The special chamber concert with Martha Argerich and Lahav Shani yesterday at the Charles Bronfman Auditorium was sold out. The hall has 2,500 seats and a few extra […]
Carnegie Hall today named its annual National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, to go on tour with conductor Gianandrea Noseda. The largest ethnic group is East Asian. Oh, and British Columbia is […]
