Asher Fisch
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra has announced that their partnership with Israeli conductor Asher Fisch, 64, has been extended until the end of 2025, making him the longest serving Principal Conductor in the orchestra’s history. Read More →
Alain Altinoglu
(c) Fred Toulet
The Colmar Music Festival announced the appointment of 47-year-old French conductor Alain Altinoglu as artistic director for its 33rd edition in July 2023. Altinoglu is Music Director of the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels since 2016 and until 2025 and of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (since last season. Read More →
Carnegie Hall
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Die Berliner Philharmoniker gehen vom 8. – 23. November auf ihre erste gemeinsame USA-Tournee mit ihrem Chefdirigenten Kirill Petrenko. In fünf Städten – New York, Boston, Chicago, Ann Arbor und Naples – spielen sie neun Konzerte mit zwei unterschiedlichen Programmen, die sich beide durch eine starke Verbindung zwischen Europa und den USA auszeichnen. Read More →
In dem von der Neuen Leipziger Chopin-Gesellschaft ausgerichteten 4. Leipziger Clara Schumann-Wettbewerb vergab die Jury vergab am gestrigen Sonntag im Schumann-Haus Leipzig insgesamt acht Preise in drei Altersgruppen. Read More →
Grace Bumbry
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American singer Grace Bumbry, 85, has been hospitalized after a stroke. According to a press release, she is currently in recovery in Queens, New York. Read More →
The Czech conductor Libor Pesek has died at the age of 89. After appointments at the opera houses in Pilsen and Prague from 1958 to 1964, he founded a chamber orchestra in Prague. In the 1970s he led orchestras in Pardubice, Leeuwarden and Enschede. Read More →
Seit vor zwei Tagen das Ergebnis des diesjährigen Wieniawski-Wettbewerbs in Poznan feststeht, haben sich bei uns mehrere Leser gemeldet, darunter auch ganz bekannte Geiger, die ihrer Verärgerung über das Ergebnis Ausdruck gegeben haben. Read More →
String players all over the world are worried about the possible classification of pernambuco wood in Appendix I of the CITES Convention (Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). The launched an international petition which was signed already by over 5000 people. Read More →
The First Prize of 50,000 Euro at the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznan, Poland, went this year to Hina Maeda from Japan. Meruert Karmenova from Kazakhstan won Second Prize, Qingzhu Weng from China Third Prize. Read More →
The latest Karajan Community Letter focuses on the year 1959, when Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic went on a World Tour and Mendelssohn would have celebrated his 150th birthday. So, of course this composer and the recordings Karajan made is another topic here. Here is the link to this week’s Karajanist Community Letter. And here is the link, where you can subscribe to the Newsletter: https://www.karajan.community/
