The 15th Banff International String Quartet Competition was decided overnight in Canada. The winners come from Cinicinnati and are known as the Poiesis Quartet.
A peculiar press rerlease goes on to designate their preferred modes of address:
Sarah Ying Ma (she/they) on violin, Max Ball (he/they) on violin, Jasper de Boor (they/them) on viola, and Drew Dansby (he/him) on cello.
They’ve gone barking at Banff.
The post They/them win Banff quartet prize appeared first on Slippedisc.
The young German musician Till Schuler has won the audition for solo cello in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Till, 24, has been until now a member of the orchestra’s academy. View this post […]
The Gonzaga Band Each year the National Centre for Early Music Young Composers Award 2026 is presented by the National Centre for Early Music in association with BBC Radio 3 and for the 2026 instalment […]
We are saddened to report the death, aged 71, of the singer Sarah Leonard, a focal performer for the past half-century. Starting out for five years in the BBC Singers, Sarah became a leading interpreter […]
