Online application for the next Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition is open, the organizer says in a press release, with the application deadline being fixed on Wednesday 4 December 2019. The first round will begin on 4 May 2020, the finals will take place from 25 to 30 May. Here are the rules. The organizer also says that its next competitions will be for cello in 2021, for voice in 2022, for violin in 2023 and again for piano in 2024.
« Musik verstehen – Musik interpretieren », so nennt sich eine Festschrift für Siegfried Mauser zum 65. Geburtstag des rechtskräftig wegen Sexualdelikten zu einer Gefängnisstrafe verurteilten deutschen Komponisten und Pädagogen. Sie ist im Verlag Koenigshausen Neumann erschienen und erstaunt mit der Selbstverständlichkeit, mit der sie präsentiert wird und mit den Namen, die darin als Autoren vorkommen. Read More →
Seit dem 11. Oktober 2019 gilt am Staatstheater Darmstadt eine interne Haushaltssperre um eine sich nach derzeitigen Prognosen abzeichnende Budgetüberschreitung möglichst abzuwenden, teilte das Haus mit. Read More →
British violinist Stephen Morris inadvertently left his 310-year-old violin, a David Tecchler from 1709, on a train. According to British media he was on the London to Orpington service on the 22nd of October, got out at Penge East with his bike, but forgot his violin worth almost € 300.000. He had been playing with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The train company and the police are searching for the violin since a week now. Morris is the last one of a long list of musicians who forgot their instruments on a train or a bus.
Anthony Bramall
Der Intendant des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz, Josef E. Köpplinger, und der britische Dirigent Anthony Bramall, 62, haben dessen Vertrags-Verlängerung als Chefdirigent des Gärtnerplatztheaters unterzeichnet. Der Brite wird demnach weitere vier Jahre in München bleiben. Read More →
Dmitrij Kitajenko, Gürzenich Orchester
c) Holger Talinsky
Prokofievs Symphonie Classique und Scriabins Klavierkonzert sowie seine 2. Symphonie stehen aktuell auf dem Programm von drei Konzerten mit Dmitrij Kitajenko und dem Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. Remy Franck hat sich das erste der drei angehört. Read More →
Stefan Englert, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Remy Franck & Georg Heimbach
(c) Holger Taleinski
As winners of an ICMA award in the category Symphonic Music, Dmitrij Kitajenko and the Gürzenich Orchestra were honoured yesterday at the Philharmonie in Cologne. Kitajenko and the Gürzenich Orchestra won the award this year for their CD with the Second Symphony by Jean Sibelius, published on Oehms Classics. Read More →
Marcelo Lehninger
The Grand Rapids Symphony (Michigan, US) announced that it has renewed Marcelo Lehninger’s five-year contract as Music Director, due to expire at the end of the 2020-21 season, for an additional five years through the 2025-26 season. Read More →
In the new Rigoletto production staged by Glyndebourne on Tour, German stage director Christiane Lutz (the spouse of Jonas Kaufmann, since 2018) has moved the plot from 16th-century Mantua to 1930s Hollywood, where court jester Rigoletto has been turned into Charlie Chaplin while his vicious employer the Duke becomes a film director. The production draw mostly bad press. Read More →
Krzysztof Penderecki
(c) Bruno Fydrich
Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, 85, canceled his participation at the 11th Seoul International Music Festival due to health concerns, the organizer said. One of Penderecki’s closest collaborators, Maciej Tworek filled in and led the KBS Symphony Orchestra for the Korean premiere of Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion. In September, Penderecki was already forced to cancel a concert at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest after having been hospitalized in the Romanian capital.
