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Moscow-trained Ilya Shmukler, 27, has swept the board at the Geza Anda piano competition in Geneva. He won the main prize, audience prize and the young jury’s vote, plus best Mozart performance.   The post […]

We hear that  Mariko Wyrick has won the cello vacancy in the hotly competed Metropolitan Opera Orchestra auditions after three rounds behind the screen. Mariko, from California, plays with her sister in the American Ballet […]

Antonio Moral’s final festival as saviour-director of the Granada Festival opened this weekend with two bangs. The rarely-sighted Kirill Petrenko gave an explosive Bruckner fifth with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, a performance which ended […]

Dear Alma, I am a shrink with some issues. My consulting rooms are near the concert hall. I was not surprised when one of the philharmonic musicians came to see me. I was a little […]

A report from our observer, Susan Hall: The League of American Orchestras held its annual meeting in Houston,Texas from June 6-8. About one thousand representatives of orchestras across the globe attended. In the US, there […]

The Russian-born anti-fascist has been awarded the German National Prize. Levit, 37, takes home 30,000 Euros. The German National Foundation said in Berlin that Levit was an important musician, committed citizen and one of the […]

Romare Bearden/Major Jackson – Met Click here to read/see  Romare Bearden died in 1988. I was lucky enough to meet him once and he kindly signed a poster for me which I still have. By that […]

Puccini’s adaptation of the novel by Abbé Prévost had a complicated gestation. An alarmingly long list of librettists attempted to satisfy the composer’s demands in terms of dramatic structure and fine verbal detail. Was Puccini […]

A trio with Mischa Maisky and Janine Jansen, new on youtube. Beat that. The post Martha Argerich: No place to Haydn appeared first on Slippedisc.

A regular concertgoer reports:   I usually sit on the side circle At Symphony Hall, but was moved up to the higher level by the CBSO because my usual seats were being used by the […]