There are many piano competitions being held every year nowadays. What attracted you to the Classic Piano International Competition, and what do you feel this event is able to contribute to the world of music?
The competition is very special in terms of the selection criteria. It’s not done by the usual method of video submissions, which is an extremely closed process. This one has a very transparent selection approach. There are fourteen competitions around the world, and the top ranking pianists are then invited to come to Dubai to take part in Classic Piano. Read More →


Die beiden Violinkonzerte von Brahms und Busoni als Koppelung erscheinen auf den ersten Blick eher dem Motto ‘Gegensätze ziehen sich an’ zu gehorchen, da Brahms weitgehend als Traditionalist gesehen wurde und Busoni sich selber als Erneuerer einstufte. Read More →

2024 is not only a Bruckner and Schoenberg year, it’s also a Smetana year. He was born in Bohemia 200 years ago, on 2 March 1824. He is a topic in the latest Karajan Community Letter since Karajan played some of his music quite often and from his early years on. Read More →


Miloslav Kabelac (1908-1979) war ein tschechischer Komponist und Dirigent. Er schrieb neben Orchesterwerken auch Kammermusik, Klavierwerke und Vokalkompositionen. Read More →

The 29th edition of the BĂ©la BartĂłk International Choir Competition in Debrecen, Hungary, will be held in August 2024. The professional partner of the main organizer, Kodály Filharmonia Debrecen, is the world’s largest youth music organisation, Jeunesses Musicales. Applications for the prestigious competition are invited until 15 April on the competition’s official website. Read More →

In March VolleksbĂĽhn will take the audience on an operatic scavenger-hunt through Luxembourg City to playfully discover the diversity of opera through Augmented Reality. The show is called Opera Go. (Deutscher Text siehe unten). Read More →


Diese Hommage an die im Jahre 2011 im Alter von nur 45 Jahren verstorbene luxemburgische Cellistin Françoise Groben beginnt mit einer leidenschaftlichen, zutiefst romantischen und hoch expressiven und durchgehend spannungsvollen Interpretation des Schumann-Konzerts mit dem NHK unter Uwe Mund. Read More →

The Waco Symphony Orchestra (Texas) has appointed New York conductor Lawrence Loh as Music Director. Loh’s selection ends a more than year-long search for a successor to longtime music director Stephen Heyde, who retired in November 2022 after 35 years leading the symphony orchestra. Read More →

Over the past three weeks, from the beginning of February 2024, the Zabeel Theatre in Dubai’s 5-star Jumeirah Zabeel Saray hotel has been playing host to the 3rd Grand Edition of the Classic Piano International Competition. Read More →


(Guy Engels) – Wir befinden uns in Braunsberg, heute Braniewo, wo im 17. Jahrhundert zwei umfangreiche Bände – Band zwei wurde im Kloster in Olive bei Danzig vollendet – mit zeitgenössischer Musik entstanden. 2021 wurde eine musikhistorische Edition veröffentlicht. Read More →