It was the black year of 1968 when conductor Agnieszka Duczmal founded the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. On the streets, students and workers went on strike and the antisemitic Communist government blamed the Jews, forcing thousands […]
The Stuttgart Philharmonic has let it be known that Dan Ettinger, its general music director since 2015, has left his job ‘for personal reasons’. No further comment is being made. Ettinger, 53, a former Barenboim […]
Esther Abrami The French violinist Esther Abrami, who studied at Chetham’s School of Music, the Royal College of Music and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, is described as something of a ‘media sensation’: she has over 400,000 […]