Adam Fischer
(c) Eric Engel
The video of the ICMA Gala Concert played by the Luxembourg Philharmonic and Orchestre Royal de l’Opéra de Versailles with many winning artists from the 2022 panel continues to be successful on the YouTube channel of Deutsche Welle. More than 150.000 people saw it by now, and the number is continuously growing. Read More →
Der Russe Konstantin Emelyanov hat den 11. Internationalen Deutschen Pianistenpreis gewonnen. Neben ihm soll laut einer Pressemitteilung die italienische Pianistin Michelle Candotti besonders imponiert haben. Sie hat angeblich die Jury « vor eine schwierige Wahl » gestellt.
Aziz Shaokakimov
(c) Mischa Blank
The Orchestre Philarmonique de Strasbourg has extended the contract of Music Director Aziz Shokhakimov for another three years. The 34-year-olde Uzbek is in this poaition since the 2021/22 season. He is also Music Director of Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra in Turkey.
The European Union Baroque Orchestra announced the restart of EUBO operations! On initiative of ICONS Innovation Strategies, a non-profit foundation active in the development of European and cultural projects based in Lodi, some 50 kilometers south of Milan, and in agreement with founders and former managers Paul James and Emma Wilkinson, EUBO will play its relaunch concert today, 28 November, in Ravenna under the direction of Alfredo Bernardini. Read More →
Joseph Joachim
The Brahms Institute at the University of Music Lübeck has acquired eleven previously unknown letters by Joseph Joachim whicht he violinist and Brahms friend wrote between 1875 and 1888 in French to Jean-Théodore Radoux, the Belgian bassoonist and director of the conservatory in Liège. Read More →
Renaud Capuçon
(c) Simon Fowler
French violinist Renaud Capuçon has been named Artistic Director of the festival Rencontres musicales d’Evian which takes place at La Grange au Lac, a building owned by the Danone group. The hall is now closed for seven months of work and will reopen in June 2023 for its 30th anniversary. Read More →
Für das heutige Konzert des von Putins Gazprom finanzierten Orchesters MusicaAeterna im Konzerthaus Dortmund wurden Mitglieder von MusicaAeterna suspendiert. Das berichtete der Sender BR Klassik. Read More →
Brazilian conductor Roberto Tibiriça, 68, has been appointed as Music Director of the Parana Symphony Orchestra, based at Teatro Guaíra, in Curitiba, the capital city of the southern Brazilian state of Parana. Tibiriça replaces German conductor Stefan Geiger, who held the position from 2016 to 2020. Read More →
Den Platz des Instruments des Jahres in Deutschland nimmt ab dem 1. Januar die Mandoline ein. Seit 2008 wird jedes Jahr ein Instrument des Jahres gekürt und 12 Monate in den Fokus gestellt. Jedes Bundesland hat seine eigene Vorgehensweise, um das länderübergreifende Ziel zu erreichen: Neugier und Aufmerksamkeit auf die vielen Facetten der Mandoline zu lenken. Read More →
Jorge Parodi
Gulfshore Opera, a professional opera company based in Naples, Florida, has announced that Jorge Parodi will become the company’s first Music Director. Read More →
