Hayoung Choi won First Prize at the International Queen Elisabeth Celloo Competition. Born in 1998 in Bielefeld, Germany, Hayoung Choi studied at the Korean National University of Arts, the Purcell School for Young Musicians in England, and then at the Kronberg Academy, where she was taught by Frans Helmerson and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. Read More →
The St. Petersburg Akademicheskaya Filarmonia has canceled a concert led by Vassily Sinaisky, a conductor critical of the war in Ukraine, citing “health” issues, local media said. However, before the concert, there were calls to cancel the performance because of the position of the conductor. Read More →
Lieder auf Goethe-Texte
Ein Goethe-Projekt hat die Sopranistin Ute Ziemer zusammen mit der Pianistin Hiroko Imai bei Gramola veröffentlicht. Sie führen dabei Lieder auf u.a. von Robert Schumann, Josephine Lang, Enjott Schneider, Amy Beach, Anton Webern, Edvard Grieg, Dorothea Hofmann, Alban Berg, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf und Richard Strauss. Read More →
The Rotterdam International Conducting Competition has announced the winners of the 2022 edition. The Grand Prize and €15,000 was awarded to Bertie Baigent while the audience award went to Chilean conductor Luis Toro Araya. Read More →
When 29-year-old British conductor and composer Alexander Prior becomes music director of the Erfurt Theater starting in the 2022/23 season, he will have left the Edmonton Symphony in Canada where he became chief conductor in the fall of 2017. He will not extend his contract there beyond the 5-year-tenure. Michael Stern has been announced as the orchestra’s Artistic Advisor while the orchestra searches for the next Music Director.
César Francks viel zu wenig gespieltes Klavierquintett habe ich seit der 2003 veröffentlichten Aufnahme mit Dora Schwarzberg, Renaud und Gautier Capuçon, Lida Chen sowie Alexander Gurning nicht mehr in einer derart leidenschaftlichen und intensiven Interpretation gehört wie in dieser neuen Einspielung des Prazak Quartetts und François Dumont am Klavier. Sie bieten eine elektrisierende Deutung dieses Werkes. Read More →
Zwei Eckdaten hatten großen Wert in der Karriere der Luxemburger Cellistin Françoise Groben, an die diese CD-Box von Hänssler Classic erinnert. Im Jahre 1990 war sie Preisträgerin beim Internationalen Tchaikovsky-Wettbewerb in Moskau, wo ihr neben der Silbermedaille auch die Spezialpreise der Moskauer Virtuosen und des Künstlerbundes zugesprochen wurden. Read More →
Jacques Offenbach(1819-1880) komponierte seine Märchenoper Le Voyage dans la Lune (Eine Reise zum Mond) im Jahr 1875. Sie basiert auf dem Roman De la Terre à la Lune, Von der Erde zum Mond, von Jules Verne. Read More →
The Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda, 58, has extended his contract as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington by two years, through the 2026-2027 season. Read More →
The United States has issued new Russia-related sanctions targeting 17 individuals, including Sergei Roldugin, a cellist and conductor who the Treasury Department says acts as « custodian of Putin’s offshore wealth, » and Roldugin’s opera singer wife, Elena Mirtova. Roldugin is already under sanctions imposed by the European Union, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand for his links to Putin. Read More →