We have received confirmation of the death on Monday of Werner Hink, a cherished member of the Vienna Philharmonic from 1965.
Hink, who was 81, was hugely influential at the Pacific Music Festival Sapporo, where he taught from 1991 to 2010.
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The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts has chosen the cellist and singer Salome Kammer to be head of its music section. Kammer, 65, is the first woman to hold the post since the Academy’s foundation […]
The Chicago Symphony has named Teng Li as its principal viola. She presently holds that seat in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which she joined in 2018. Li succeeds Charles Pikler who served as Chicago’s principal […]
Kafka’s Metamorphosis – Royal Ballet To recognise the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death this week, I found this excerpt from Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella, adapted as a ballet by choreographer Arthur Pita. It had […]
