The Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival has fallen this year to Hayato Sumino. The Japanese pianist, known as ‘Cateen’, has a million Youtube subscribers. He is 29 and moves, the citation says, […]
The third page of the Times this morning is occupied by two stories that are not news. The first concerns a virtual reality device that is being pioneered by the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, […]
The Hochschule für Musik und Theater München has appointed Simon Mack to be professor of music theory. A German-born crossover composer, Mack could be mistaken for a younger version of Munich’s other Simon. New Simon […]
The National Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC has hired two public-facing faces. Board member David Ginsberg is Vice President of Global Communications and Public Affairs at Meta. John Roloff, Vice President of Operations, has been […]
The Buxton Festival is putting out a call for students to form its orchestra. They previously employed the orchestra of Opera North. This is bad practice any way you look at it. The Musicians Union […]
The conductor has enjoyed a clear run until now. As music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 18 years he enjoyed the confidence of the musicians and the adulation of a star-struck audience. The […]
He tried to lift it, but missed the top notes. Photos from JK’s social media today. The post Jonas Kaufmann, piano shifter appeared first on Slippedisc.
One opera house after another is putting up replacements for Lise Davidsen, who is expecting twins and will be unavailable from March 2025 until the middle of 2026. Barcelona is among thefirst. Asmik Grigorian is […]
January 26th is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Paul Newman (1925-2008), American actor, director, racing car driver, entrepreneur and philanthropist. A noted political liberal, Newman was outspoken in support of causes such as […]
The final concert of the Concurso Tenor Viñas Competition at which the winners perform accompanied by the Gran Teatre del Liceu Symphony Orchestra. Founded in 1963 by Jacint Vilardell to commemorate the Catalan tenor Francisco […]
