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The death has been made known of José de Felipe, founder and conductor of important elements in Madrid’s  concert life. Educated in Moscow, where his parent were exiled during the Franco regime, founded the Children’s […]

From our agony aunt’s mailbag: Dear Alma, My professor earned commissions from my instrument purchase and the shop lied about its value.  Advice? Dear Advice?, It’s not an uncommon thing to have a teacher earn […]

The judges of six conductor finalists at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra International Conducting Competition could not agree on which was the best, so they chose two. Yet another ludicrous conclusion. There are situations in life […]

You may recall the horrendous and unprovoked knife attack suffered by the Ecuadorian conductor Dante Anzolini almost two years ago in the Bronx. Dante has yet to recover fully from the assault. He tells us: […]

At the start of this year, the associate concertmaster of the Concertgebouw orchestra Tjeerd Top caused a storm in the dykes by moving to the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra as concertmaster. Old rivalries revived, rude words […]

Figures released on Friday by the Metropolitan Opera show that music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin was paid $2,045,038 in the year ending July 2024, a huge leap from his previous $1,307,583. Yannick is also music director […]

From Ronald Blum of the Associated Press: NEW YORK (AP) — Metropolitan Opera season attendance dropped slightly following the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown that coincided with a decrease in tourists to New York. The Met […]

Message from Patrick Corrigan, head of Opéra de Montréal: Today I announced my retirement and will conclude my work as General Director of Opéra de Montréal on October 31, 2025. This will mark the end […]

The Israeli-Palestinian pianist Nabil Hayek took first prize last night in the Jose Iturbi Competition in Valencia. Hayek, 23, studied with Arie Vardi in Tel Aviv and with Murray Perahia in Jerusalem. A practising Christian, […]

Not many music gongs. Alex Beard (pic), CEO of the Royal Ballet and Opera since 2013, becomes Sir Alex. David Pickard who ran the BBC Proms for 9 years gets an OBE. Ann Atkinson, former […]