Kent Nagano has been named principal artistic partner of the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma.
Dinis Sousa (pic) has been promoted to music director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia in Gateshead-Newcastle.
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The Israeli-Palestinian pianist Nabil Hayek took first prize last night in the Jose Iturbi Competition in Valencia. Hayek, 23, studied with Arie Vardi in Tel Aviv and with Murray Perahia in Jerusalem. A practising Christian, […]
Every chamber music lover knows that Beethoven wrote a set of three string quartets in 1806 for Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador in Vienna. Razumovsky employed a house quartet, led by Beethoven’s friend Ignaz Schuppanzigh […]
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