Erik Satie
Music & Arts Network has published a documentary film about Erik Satie, commissioned by the city of Arcueil and the publishing house Durand Salabert Eschig at the occasion of the composer’s 150th birthday. Several musicologists and musicians have been asked to share their experience with Satie, among them pianists Bertrand Chamayou and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger. The film is available in French only. Read More →
The current director of the Amsterdam Opera, Pierre Audi, will become the next general manager of the Aix-en-Provence Festival in September 2018. He has been appointed, yesterday, June 24, by the French Minister of Culture. Pierre Audi will continue as head of the Amsterdam Opera until 2018.
Violinists from 15 Countries have been selected among 250 applicants for this year’s Wieniawski Competition which will open on 8 October with a concert by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Krzysztof Penderecki, with Soyoung Yoon, winner of the 2011 competition. In the 2016 competition, Poland will be represented by ten violinists, Japan by nine, and South Korea by four. Other candidates come from, among others, Canada, the United States, Ukraine, Israel, Germany, Russia, China, Georgia and France. The jury will be presided by Maxim Vengerov.
Daniel Harding
(c) Julian Hargreaves
After the applause to Brexit from people like Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, British conductor Daniel Harding asked his compatriots via Twitter: « Proud of our new friends? »
French composer Charles Chaynes died yesterday, 24 June, aged 90. Born in 1925 in Toulouse, he studied in his home town as well as in Paris with Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1951 for his cantata Et l’homme se vit les portes rouvrir. In 1964 he succeeded Marius Constant as head of the radio station France Musique. Read More →
Bei einer Vorstandssitzung im Mariinsky-Theater in St. Petersburg überreichte der russische Kulturminister Vladimir Medinsky Valery Gergiev ein Exemplar einer Gipsstatue des Dirigenten, die er von der Akademie der Künste in St. Petersburg anfertigen ließ. Das Geschenk sei ein Zeichen seiner Dankbarkeit an Gergiev, sagte der Politiker.
An appeal has been launched to day via the social media: « Ode to Joy and Europe – Music unites us all. Come tonight at Trafalgar Square at 10 pm to play Ode to Joy together and remind ourselves that we will always have love and music.
Ensemble Lucilin
(c) Stefan Pieper
In den Kasematten der Festungsstadt Luxemburg wurde am 20. Juni Albena Petrovics ‘Music in the Dark’ uraufgeführt. Stefan Pieper berichtet für Pizzicato. Read More →
Following the Referendum decision to leave the EU, the Association of British Orchestras says in a press release that ABO is « deeply concerned at the potential impact on its members. » ABO hat encouraged people to vote ‘remain’. Read More →
Rune Bergmann
(c) Kristin Hoebermann
Rune Bergmann, 40, has been named Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Philharmonic in Szczecin, Poland. He will take up the role from the beginning of the 2016/17 season. Since 2013, the Norwegian conductor has been Principal Guest Conductor of Lithuania’s Kaunas City Orchestra and Artistic Director of Norway’s innovative Fjord Cadenza since its inception in 2010.
