New and easy EU rules for the handling of musical instruments at customs are applied as from today on. According to the new amendment travelers may temporarily import/export portable musical instruments as professional equipment without customs formalities. This means that when traveling with such instruments they may use the green or ‘nothing to declare’ Customs channel at airports. This will definitely end the confiscation of violins and other instruments especially at Frankfurt airport, which affected badly some musicians in the past. The new regulation is available here.
Die bankrotte ‘New York City Opera’ darf jetzt ihr Eigentum versteigern. Beim ‘Tiger Remarketing Servicing LLC’ kommen demnächst Kostüme, Perücken, Requisiten, 60 Musikinstrumente und Büro Equipment unter den Hammer.
The Australian Broadcaster SBS (Special Broadcasting Service) will disband the SBS Youth Orchestra in December. This highly appreciated orchestra first performed in June 1989 under Matthew Krel, the founder. The announcement was made this week to the young players aged between 12 and 24. Thousands of young Australian musicians have played in the orchestra and many of them became professionals. The orchestra’s final concert will be on December 1 in Sydney.
Das zweite Geburtstagskonzert für Krzysztof Penderecki gestern Abend in der Warschauer Philharmonie wurde vom Hausorchester gespielt. Nicht weniger als vier Dirigenten leiteten die vier Werke des Programms. Jerzy Maksymiuk machte den Auftakt mit einer fein regulierten Aufführung von ‘Dimensions of Time and Silence’, für Chor, Streicher und Schlagzeug, einem radikal experimentellen, aber auch ungeheuer fantasievollen und kohärenten Werk aus den Jahren 1959/61. Read More →
Alain Surrans, currently leading the Opera in Rennes (France), will become the new General Manager of the Opera and National Orchestra in Montpellier. He will be the successor of Laurent Spielmann.
A devastating fire occurred on last Monday at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago de Chile, the principal venue for classical music and ballet in the country. The fire was located at the storage rooms and extinction works were complex. The flames destroyed costumes and stage elements. It is still not clear when the building from 1857 will be reopened.
Continuing with events on great figures in modern music – Mahler and Debussy – an exhibition at Musée d’Orsay in Paris currently gives the public an opportunity to discover a particularly vibrant period in Hungarian cultural and artistic life, through Béla Bartók (1881-1945), the man and his music. Read More →
Lorin Maazel
Das ‘Castleton Festival’, das dieses Jahr seinen fünften Geburtstag feierte, ist ein Luxus-Festival mit jungen Musikern, gegründet und geleitet von Lorin Maazel und seiner Frau, der Sängerin Dietlinde Turban. Die Büros des Festivals, das in Castleton/Virginia stattfindet, befinden sich im ca. 100 Kilometer entfernten Washington DC. Maazel ist ‘Executive Director’ und künstlerischer Leiter, seine Gattin coacht die jungen Sänger, die beim Festival auftreten. Read More →
The international jury headed by pianist Denis Matsuev has chosen 5 laureates and 10 diploma winners at the Sberbank Debut International Competition in Kiev (Ukraine). The laureates are Simon Buerki (Switzerland), Nikita Burzanica (Ukraine), Shuan Hern Lee (Australia), Sandro Nebieridze (Georgia), Gleb-Joseph Romanchukevich (Russia). Read More →
Hossam Mahmoud
Der mit 15.000 Euro dotierte große Kunstpreis des Landes Salzburg 2013 geht an Hossam Mahmoud. Im Festspielsommer 2014 wird damit sowohl in der ‘Ouverture spirituelle’ als auch in der Reihe ‘Salzburg contemporary’ jeweils ein Werk des Komponisten zu hören sein. Read More →
