The Glenn Gould Foundation awarded the 14th Glenn Gould Prize to Gustavo Dudamel in a ceremony at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Along with the main prize for Dudamel, the Glenn Gould Protégé Prize was awarded to conductors Andrés David Ascanio Abreu and Enluis Montes Olivar. The Protégé Prize winners were selected by Dudamel for the honor. Read More →
Classeek has published the full schedule of the Classeek Ambassador Program for the 2024-2025 season. Since its inception in 2017, the Ambassador Program has been dedicated to discovering, nurturing, and supporting the next generation of classical musicians. Read More →
Lincoln Center, New York
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced Mariko Silver as its next and twelfth President and Chief Executive Officer. Silver will join Lincoln Center on September 23, 2024. Read More →
Ivan Fischer
(c) Alfonso Salgueiro / Philharmonie Luxembourg
The Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) will host a free concert titled Concert for Peace, featuring guest artists from Ukraine, Russia, Israel, and Palestine, on August 31 at 7 p.m. in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square. Read More →
Yannik Nézét-Séguin
(c) George Etheredge
The Metropolitan Opera in New York today announced the contract extension of its Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, through the 2029–30 season. Only the third Music Director in the company’s history, Nézet-Séguin began his tenure in the 2018-19 season. Read More →
The 31st edition of the Verbier Festival came to a close after 18 days of music. 2024 will go down as the second-best ticketing year since the Festival’s inception, with 11% growth over 2023. 20 concerts were sold out. Nearly 40,000 tickets were issued for this edition.
‘Musik und Gender in Luxemburg’ hat der luxemburgischen Sängerin und Komponistin Béby Kohl-Thommes (1923-2016) ein neues Portal gewidmet. Für den biografischen Text und die Aufarbeitung des Archivmaterials zeichnet der Musikologe Marvin J. Deitz verantwortlich, in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Dany Kohl. Read More →
Anja Bihlmaier
(c) Neda Navaee
German conductor Anja Bihlmaier, 45, has been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, starting September 2024. Anja Bihlmaier has been Chief Conductor of the Residentie Orkest since August 2021.
Spanish conductor and composer Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez (*1949) died yesterday, 4 August 2024. At age of thirteen he got the title of piano professor at the Music Conservatory of Granada and at age of seventeen he won the ‘Extraordinary Prize’ in composition at the Music Conservatory of Madrid.[5] 1964 he moved to Madrid and he got the First Class Diploma and the Price of the Conservatory at the final course. Read More →
Gustavo Dudamel
After a concert with the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel at Carnegie Hall in New York the Human Rights Foundation criticized Dudamel for engaging in shameless propaganda and providing cover for the Venezuelan dictator Maduro. Read More →
