The winner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition is Zijian Wei, 25, from China. Two Americans came second and third. You can watch the final round on youtube. The post Chinese contender wins Cleveland appeared […]
The Australian-British pianist Jayson Gillham has been sanctioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra after making remarks from the stage that were offensive to Israelis and to Jews. Gillham, 37, had inserted a piece that was […]
The choreographer Doris Uhlich has been awarded this year’s state price for dancing naked in January while covering herself in powder in th former imperial resort of Bad Ischl. Must be something original in the […]
When the Swiss French tenor Benjamin Bernheim sang the Hymn to Apollo at the Paris Olympics closing show he had been given a weekend leave of absence by the Salzburg Festival. By rights he should […]
Bolshoi goers have been complaining on Russian social media about huge proce increases at the Bolshoi since Valery Gergiev was granted supreme power last year by Vladimir Putin. A good seat in the stalls has […]
The Divertimento Symphony Orchestra was conducted at the Olympics closing ceremony by its founder Zahia Ziouani. She’s French-Algerian, born in Paris in 1978, twin sister of the cellist Fettouma Ziouani. Benjamin Bernheim sang Fauré’s Hymn […]
In her Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3, Lise Davidsen talked about turning to the mental coach of the Norwegian Olympic team for guidance about motivation and managing her career. ‘I thought, this isn’t for […]
The death is being widely reported of Steve Davislim, an Australian tenor of Chinese and Irish origin who lived mostly in Vienna. Davislim spent the 1990s at the Zurich Opera, limelighting as tenor soloist in […]
Toronto psychologist Chris Sunfield has given up his day job to reinvent himself as an indie artist. He had something totell you about Anton Bruckner, whose bicentenary falls on September 4. Take a look. Might […]
The death has been announced of Jürgen Ahrend, a German craftsman famed for restoring damaged organs in Dutch and German churches. His most important work can be heard in the Martinikerk in Groningen and St. […]
