Canada’s Honens International Piano Competition has named Amanda Smith as prez and CEO. She has already depped in those roles since John Kieser abruptly quit in November. Away from Honens, Smith is a Board Director […]
Andris Nelsons will conduct the nine symphonies in four consecutive concerts next month, the first linked cycle since Koussevitsky’s in 1927. Nelsons says: ‘For centuries, the music of Beethoven has brought us together by expressing […]
Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) famously studied with Schoenberg (the only Spanish composer to do so). He also made his base in England for a while, so his neglect in this country seems incomprehensibe. The […]