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The pianist has told a Chinese interview that he is big on Weibo, state-monitored social social media. He has to feed the beast: ‘I’m also creating my own vlogs now. I document every place I […]

The talented Ariane Matiakh, who lasted less than half a season in her first job at Halle, has renewed for a second three-year term at the Württembergischen Philharmonie Reutlingen. Good for her, good for them. […]

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 […]