Andres Orozco-Estrada

Colombian-born and Vienna based conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, 39, has extended his contract as Music Director of the Houston Symphony for three additional seasons through the 2021-22 season. Read More →

The Texan Austin Opera has received a considerable gift from arts benefactors Sarah and Ernest Butler. Ther couple donated $1 million to support the company’s artistic director Richard Buckley. “We hope that our gift will enable the company to flourish for years to come,” said Ernest Butler.

Jean-Christophe Spinosi

Ensemble Matheus and its conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi have been informed by the Department Council (Conseil départemental) about a 30% reduction of the funding granted to the orchestra. This was reported by Le Télégramme. Read More →

Kristjan Järvi

Im Herbst 2017 wird der Chefdirigent des MDR-Sinfonieorchesters, Kristjan Järvi, 44, seine letzte Spielzeit in Leipzig einläuten, meldet der Sender. Nach sechs Jahren Zusammenarbeit möchte der gebürtige Este den Fokus auf verschiedene andere Projekte richten, verlautet vom MDR. Das ‘Baltic Sea Philharmonic ‘und das ‘Absolute Ensemble’ würden weiterhin seine festen Ensembles bleiben, daneben werde der Allround-Musiker als Gastdirigent auftreten.

Cirque de la Symphonie

Now in its eleventh year, Cirque de la Symphonie is again on tour in the U.S., performing with the Detroit Symphony from 31 March to 2 April. Cirque de la Symphonie is a production designed to bring the magic of cirque to the concert hall. As a fusion of cirque and orchestra, the program showcases many of the best cirque artists in the world, thrilling the audience with aerial flyers, acrobats, dancers, jugglers, and balancers. Read More →

Bela Bartok

The publishing house Henle announced that the first volume in the Bela Bartok Complete Critical Edition has been published! It is the pedagogical work for piano ‘For Children’ in its early and revised versions. The volume contains almost 400 pages of music with scholarly comments. Read More →

Astrig Siranossian
© Nicolaj Lund

For their first cello session, taking place in Brussels in May 2017, the Reine Elisabeth Competition has announced 70 candidates. There are 21 women and 49 men, of 22 different nationalities, coming from an initial list of 202. Some of the musicians are already well known,  like Astrig Siranossian,  Aurélien Pascal, Christopoh Heesch, Benedict Klöckner or Elia Cohen-Weissert.The country list comprises the following nationalities (double nationalities in second positon). Read More →

A performance of Verdi’s Ernani at the Capitole de Toulouse was cancelled last Tuesday, because South Korean tenor Alfred Kim, who held the title role, was placed under custody over violence against his girlfriend. Read More →

Das Schweizer Auktionshaus Koller versteigert am 1. April ein bisher unbekannt gebliebenes Musikmanuskript des jungen Mendelssohn, sein einziges Autograph Mendelssohns zu Bachs Matthäuspassion. Nach den handschriftlichen Aufzeichnungen im Innendeckel des sich gegenwärtig in Schweizer Privatbesetz befindlichen Bandes schrieb Mendelssohn die beiden Arien und das Recitativ für Agnes Schubring auf, der Schwester seines Freundes und späteren Librettisten Julius Schubring, und zwar 1830 anlässlich eines Besuches in deren Haus in Quellendorf bei Dessau.

Ivan Ilic
(c) Benoît Maire

The Serbian-American pianist Ivan Ilic has signed a new multi-album recording contract with Chandos Records, following internationally acclaimed recordings of Godowsky and Feldman. His first project under the label will be a series devoted to the solo piano works of Czech composer Antoine Reicha, a contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven. Read More →