The 3rd Annual International Stretto Piano Festival will place from July 15-23, 2023 – both online and in-person in New York City at Baruch Performing Arts Center. The festival celebrates the Stretto piano, which has narrower than conventional keys and makes piano playing more equitable, comfortable, and easy for all hand sizes. Read More →

Linus Roth
(c) Kaupo Kikkas

German violinist Linus Roth announced his new project SamBach which, following the live performances and the studio recording in Rio de Janeiro in March, will be released as an album in September. Read More →

Elia Cecino

The Iturbi Prize, organised by the Provincial Council or Diputació of Valencia, has announced the winners of the Valencia International Piano Competition. The Italian pianist Elia Cecino, born in 2001, wins the 2023 Iturbi Prize. The jury awarded the second and third prizes to the Americans Anthony Ratinov and Rachel Breen. Read More →

Sozusagen parallel zu den markigen Worten von Moritz Eggert, dem Präsidenten des Deutschen Komponistenverbandes, zur rückgratlosen Haltung des eng mit Russland verbundenen Teodor Currentzis in Bezug auf den Kriegsherrn Putin leitete letzterer ein Konzert im Wiener Konzerthaus. Uwe Krusch, Pizzicato, hörte die Interpretation der dritten Symphonie von Gustav Mahler, die der griechisch-russische Dirigent mit dem Orchester Utopia, den Damen der Wiener Singakademie, den Wiener Sängerknaben sowie der Altistin Wiebke Lehmkuhl anbot. Read More →

The video of the ICMA Gala Concert played by the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero and featuring many winning artists from the 2023 panel is continuous successful on the YouTube channel of Deutsche Welle. More than 250.000 people saw it since April 21. Enthusiastic comments come from all over the world. Read More →

Janina Fialkowska, chairman of the Jury for the 2023 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival (taking place June 8–17, 2023, in Dallas) has announced the six all-male pianists advancing to the semifinals. Read More →

Händel-Porträt im Händel-Haus Halle
(c) Thomas Ziegler

Die Händel-Festspiele in Halle endeten am gestrigen Sonntag. Im Zeitraum vom 26. Mai bis zum 11. Juni besuchten mehr als 44.000 Gäste aus allen Teilen der Welt die Geburtsstadt von Georg Friedrich Händel: ein überregionales und internationales Publikum aus ganz Deutschland, den Niederlanden, England, Frankreich und sogar aus Japan und Amerika war zu den Händel-Festspielen in die Saalestadt gereist. Read More →

Jan Latham-Koenig

British conductor Jan Latham-Koenig, 69, has been named artistic director of the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago, Italy, for a tenure from 2024 to 2026. In January 2023, Jan Latham-Koenig begian his tenure as Music Director of Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. From 2019, he has been Founder and Artistic Director of the Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra.

Moritz Eggert

Der deutsche Komponist Moritz Eggert, Präsident des deutschen Komponistenverbandes, hat in einem Offenen Brief den russisch-griechischen Dirigenten Teodora Currentzis sehr scharf angegriffen, weil er sich weigert, zu Putins Ukraine-Angriff Position zu beziehen. Read More →

Two days after revealing he was under hospice care due to declining health conditions, conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann has died on Saturday at age 77. Gerhardt Zimmermann was Music Director of the Canton Symphony Orchestra (Ohio) since 1980. Read More →