Das grosse Festspielhaus in Salzburg

Wegen der durch Inflation gestiegener Preise kann die Sanierung und Erweiterung der Festspielhäuser im ursprünglich geplanten Budgetrahmen von 335 Millionen Euro nicht durchgeführt werden. Daher sollen jetzt mögliche Einsparungen geprüft werden. Das meldete die Kronen-Zeitung. Read More →

Mit gerade mal 10 Jahren war Mikhailo Khoptyanov der jüngste Interpret beim Residenzkonzert der Musikakademie Liechtenstein aus der Meisterklasse von Latica Honda Rosenberg in Eschen. Guy Engels berichtet. Read More →

Viktoria Mullova
(c) Alfonso Salgueiro Lora

Banks’ security measures for bank transfers sometimes give birth to the funniest things, as violinist Viktoria Mullova announced on Twitter. Read More →

The Juilliard School in New York has announced that it fired composer Robert Beaser, the former head of its composition faculty, after an independent law firm investigated allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against Beaser dating from the late 1990s and 2000s. Read More →

Petr Popelka
c) Katharina Kuhl

Der tschechische Dirigent Petr Popelka wird neuer Chefdirigent der Wiener Symphoniker. In der Saison 2023/24 wird er als designierter Chefdirigent bereits zahlreiche Dirigate übernehmen und sein Amt mit der Jubiläumssaison des Orchesters zu Beginn der Spielzeit 2024/2025 für vorerst fünf Jahre antreten. Read More →

Geoffrey Robson

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in Little Rock has hired Geoffrey Robson, 41, as Music Director. Robson, who joined the orchestra in the fall of 2008 as Associate Conductor and violinist, has conducted the orchestra since the departure of former Music Director Philip Mann at the end of the 2018-19 season. Read More →

(c) Studio Segelman

A bronze bust of Simon Rattle will be unveiled on June 15 in honor of the conductor. It will be unveiled in the Barbican Music Library a few hours before Rattle conducts his final concert as the London Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director. He became Music Director of the Barbican’s resident orchestra in 2017. Read More →

Marc Soustrot
(c) Christoffer Lomfors

The Management of the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla (ROSS) has issued a communiqué announcing the decision to cancel the Beethoven Festival, schedu Read More →

John Concklin
(c) Eli Warren

The Spartanburg Philharmonic (South Carolina) has announced John Young Shik Concklin as Music Director. Concklin is an Atlanta native who studied at Vanderbilt University, Yale University and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is currently the Music Director for the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra and Conductor with the Atlanta Music Project and Piedmont Chamber Orchestra.

Die Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben hat im Rahmen des Bundeswettbewerbs Jugend 2023 Preise im Gesamtwert von rund 40.000 Euro vergeben. Dabei gab es auch zwei Sonderpreise. Read More →

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