Das im April 2020 von 40 Festivals gegründete Forum Musik Festivals (FMF vertritt aktuell bereits 72 Institutionen jeglicher Größenordnung und fordert in einem aktuellen Positionspapier FMF einen Zukunftssicherungsfonds, um den in ihrer Existenz bedrohten Festivals zu helfen und Ausfallgagen für die betroffenen Künstler möglich zu machen. Read More →

A major digital event is to replace the postponed 16th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv. The memory of its legendary dedicatee will be celebrated with the ‘Arthur Rubinstein Virtual PianoFest’, a partnership between the Rubinstein Competition and the Buchmann-Mehta School Of Music at Tel Aviv University (BMSM). Read More →

In our ongoing Masquerade series we invite you today to discoverMaskenzug, Polka francaise, Op. 240 by Johann Straus II. Read More →

Petr Popelka
c) Katharina Kuhl

Beginning with the 2020/2021 season, Czech conductor Petr Popelka (*1986) will become Principal Guest Conductor of the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava. At the sdame time he will begin his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra Oslo (KORK).

In our ongoing Masquerade series we invite you today to discover Johan Halvorsen’s Masquerade Suite. The original version of Masquerade Suite has nine movements. Read More →

Der niederländische Dirigent, Pianist und Musikforscher Harke de Roos ist ein Spezialist der Wiener Klassik, in deren Mittelpunkt zum einen die Frage nach den umstrittenen Todesumständen von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart und zum anderen die Hinterfragung der Tempoangaben Ludwig van Beethovens steht. Read More →

If you look for an appropriate music for our time, you could listen to Aram Khachaturian’s Masquerade, written in 1941 as incidental music for a production of the play of the same name by Russian poet and playwright Mikhail Lermontov. The music is better known in the form of a five-movement suite. Here is a video. Read More →

Julian Rachlin
(c) CAMI - K.Miura

Julian Rachlin, 45, takes over artistic direction for the Herbstgold-Festival in Eisenstadt (Burgenland, Austria). In addition to the established program including the Haydn Philharmonie, Balkan and Roma sounds as well as jazz, Rachlin will focus in 2021 on well-known pianists, famous singers and chamber music, but also young talents. Read More →

Das Richard-Strauss-Festival 2020 wird in diesem Jahr aufgrund der Corona-Krise und der damit zusammenhängenden Einschränkungen für kulturelle Veranstaltungen nicht stattfinden. Das Programm soll unter dem Leitbild Humanitas.Mensch auf die Zeit vom 18.-27. Juni 2021 verschoben werden. Read More →

The International Classical Music Awards publish today, at the occasion of the cancelled Award Ceremony 2020, the statements which the Jury received during the past months. Many winners, from Outhere’s Charles Adriaenssen to Tabea Zimmermann, take the congratulatory line. Read More →

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