Slovenian violinist Igor Ozim, died in Salzburg last Saterday. He was 92 years old. After studying thge violin in his country, he received in 1949 a British Council scholarship to study in the UK. He spent three months at the Royal College of Music learning Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B minor under one of its greatest exponents, Albert Sammons, followed by two years studying with Max Rostal. Read More →

Anne-Sophie Mutter
Photo: Deutsche Grammophon

In einem Interview mit dem ‘Handelsblatt’ hat die sechzigjährige deutsche Violinistin Anne-Sophie Mutter angekündigt, gegen Ende dieses Jahres für einige Monate nicht zu konzertieren: « Ich möchte reevaluieren, wie ich als Musiker in die Zukunft gehen möchte. Read More →

Brett Mitchell

Pasadena Symphony announced that the Board of Directors has appointed American conductor Brett Mitchell, 44, as Music Director.  Mitchell begins his five-year tenure on April 1, 2024. Read More →

Peter Eötvös
(c) Istvan Huszti

Der heute verstorbene Peter Eötvös hat Remy Franck im Jahre 2007  ein Interview gegeben. Das Interview legt den Schwerpunkt auf das Unterrichten. Read More →

Peter Eötvös
(c) Szilvia Csib

Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer, conductor and pedagogue, has died at the age of 80. According to the family, Péter Eötvös died after a long and illness. Read More →

The Italian Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, signed the decree appointing Carlo Fuortes as Superintendent of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. «I wish good luck to Superintendent Fuortes, who with his mandate is called to relaunch one of the major cultural institutions of the nation, restored thanks to the work of the extraordinary commissioner Onofrio Cutaia to whom I give credit, and to give prestige to its international vocation», declared Minister Sangiuliano. Read More →

Maurizio Pollini
(c) Cosimo Filippini

Italian pianist and conductor Maurizio Pollini has died at the age of 82. This was announced by La Scala in his hometown of Milan. The opera house mourned « one of the great musicians of our time ». Pollini had cancelled most of his planned concerts in the last year.
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Budapest Opera
(c) Remy Franck

A strike of technical staff and orchestra musicians hits Budapest Opera. Several performances proceeded without orchestra or correct stage set. Some works were hugely cut and compressed and accompanied only by piano. The strikers demand an immediate wage hike and collective contracts. Read More →

A decision to disband the mixed choir St John’s Voices at St John’s College, Cambridge, has been condemned as “fundamentally regressive” by the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Simon Rattle, Sarah Connolly and Aled Jones. Read More →

RSO Wien im Konzerthaus
© Andrea Humer, Wiener Konzerthaus

Ein Programm mit vier im Wiener Konzerthaus bis dato noch nicht erklungenen Werken, davon eines als Uraufführung, bot das ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, kurz RSO Wien, unter Leitung seiner Chefin Marin Alsop im aktuellen Konzert an. Welche neuen Höreindrücke das RSO prägte und wie Solistin Patricia Kopatchinskaja ihren Part bewältigte, erlebte Uwe Krusch für Pizzicato. Read More →