The Helsinki jury has pronounced: Gabrielle Després (Canada, b.2000) Otto Antikainen (Finland, b.1999) Claire Wells (US, b.2001) Minami Yoshida (Japan, b.1998) Amia Janicki (Switzerland, b.1997) Sueye Park (South Korea, b.2000) The post Just in: […]
They have lost a good music director and can’t land another. So who jumps in? Reveal here. Have they got a drinking problem, too? Concert-only guests (21+) are invited to a complimentary preconcert reception featuring […]
Riccardo Chailly today presented his last season as music director . He will open with Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, directed by the Russian, Vasily Barkhatov. It will be the 12th time Chailly has conducted the […]
Graham Ross, Director of Music at Clare College, has been hospitalised for almost a fortnight after an assault in the centre of the town. He writes: Two weeks ago, at the end of a wonderful […]
Reports are still sketchy but it appears that Brazilian star Wagner Carvalho lost a finger while dancing Spartacus at the Kazan Opera and Ballet. The injury occurred in the first act as Carvalho fought a […]
For the second successive week, an unstarred soloist on a pianino tops the global streaming charts of Apple Classical. You read it here exclusively (and here’s the top 100). 1 Chopin intime Justin Taylor 2 […]
The UK-schooled French luthier Patrick Robin has died at 69 after a long illness. A graduate of the UK’s Newark School of Violin Making, he joined a group of restorers in Bremen before founding Atelier […]
Taina Elg, the only Finnish acress ever to have made it in Hollywood, has died at an advanced age. A prodigy at Finnish National Ballet, she moved on after the Russians bombed and occupied her […]
Amid the voluminous tributes to the BBC’s late creative director, we ought to point out that Alan Yentob knew nothing about classical music and disliked to be reminded of its existence. Although he once cleared […]
Derek Hartman, 28, has won the 17th international Beethoven piano competition in Vienna. He’s studying for a PhD at Yale and teaching at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. The post An American winner in […]
