Christian Thielemann stepped down tonight as chief conductor of the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden with a performance of Gustav Mahler’s 8th Symphony at the Semper Opera.
Thielemann, 65, is about to become General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, foillowing Daniel Barenboim.
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Two teachers have left the Royal Northern College of Music after complaints were allegedly received about their conduct. The saxophonist Rob Buckland departed after facing a disciplinary tribunal. The cellist Nicholas Jones left of his […]
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Composer Gabriel Prokofiev is opening a space dedicated to the art of his father Oleg Prokofiev (1928-1998), son of composer Sergei Prokofiev. Oleg wrote that his father’s music inspired in him ‘a wave of some […]
