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The formidable organist and pianist Alena Štěpánková-Veselá has died two months short of her 102nd birthday. She taught for more than half a cnetury at the Faculty of Music of the Janáček Academy of Performing […]

Musicians are mourning Andrzej Haluch, one of the most effective artist managers in Poland and eastern Europe. His artists included Daniil Trifonov, Kian Soltani, Mischa Maisky and the Borodin Quartet. Pianist Lukas Geniušas writes: ‘One […]

The Yehudi Menuhin School has chosen its next head, replacing Ashley Wass in September. She is violist Rosalind Ventris, Director of Musical Performance and Performance Studies at the University of Oxford and an active chamber […]

The Orchestre des Pays de Savoie has named a successor to its outgoing Dutch music director, Pieter-Jelle de Boer. Coming in will be the Dutch conductor, Arie Van Beek. International search? The post Dutch keep […]

We are informed that Oliver Aldort, assistant principal cello of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, won the May 6 audition for 1st principal cello at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Oliver has played in the Boston Symphony […]

Message from the upmarket Swatch: Six world-class artists, the @viennaphilharmonic and the @operadeparis have come together for the Rolex Ambassadors Concert, held under the High Patronage of Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, as part of ongoing […]

The name of the next music director will be announced in the course of today. Daniele Gatti has been the favoured candidate of the Mayor of Milan and of the company’s Sovrintendente Fortunato Ortombina. However, […]

We have been notified of the death from cancer of Matthew Best, the renowned bass singer and conductor of numerous ensembles. Matthew, who was 68, founded the Corydon Singers in 1973 and was a regular […]

A court in St Petersburg has ordered bailiffs to enter an apartment belonging to the opera singer Anna Netrebko. They have been ordered to inspect unauthorised structural work that may weaken the rest of the […]

Welsh National Opera took its tremendous Peter Grimes to Birmingham last night. At the curtain call, some of the singers wore t-shirts proclaiming ‘Don’t cut the chorus’. The message will have fallen on blind eyes […]