One of the defining personalities of the Seattle Symphony, piccolist Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby has announced her retirement at the end of this month. She has played in the orchestra for 43 years and mentored several of […]
You have to hand it to Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the Swiss-Moldavian soloist. She’s just made Ligeti and the western world even more macabre. And you won’t be seeing this virtuoso performance at the Kennedy Center any […]
The Cleveland Orchestra, leaderless since David Radzynski resigned in March, has upgraded a recent member of the second violins to the title of first associate concertmaster. Xie, from Shanghai, joined the orchestra ten months ago. […]