With the idea of creating stronger links with its audience, Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla has launched the ROSSClub. « ROSSClub is a community about the Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla. It will bring together all music lovers who want to live music close up and be in direct contact with the orchestra », the management says. Read More →

David, Your father did not very much like competitions….
That’s not true. He hated them. Let’s be clear….

And that’s why you and your brother Michael always wanted the Shanghai Isaac Stern Competition to become special. So, what is special about it?
There are two challenging aspects: The first is, how to get the pure competition elements out of the competition. Read More →

With its new Music Director Fabio Luisi, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will implement a new strategic plan. Key initiatives include ‘Women in Classical Music’, designed to elevate the role of women in classical music and increase female representation in the field. The idea is to create dialogue about and opportunities for female musicians at all stages in their careers. Read More →

ICMA Jury member Bernadette Beyne passed away last Sunday, 29 July, at the age of 69. Founder, in 1993, of the Belgian music magazine Crescendo, together with Michelle Debra, Bernadette Beyne was editor in chief of the magazine. Read More →

British conductor and keyboard player Richard Egarr, 54, will step down as Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) at the end of the 2020-21 season, following fifteen years in the post. Egarr took up the post of Music Director in April 2006, succeeding AAM founder Christopher Hogwood. Egarr was recently appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague from 2019. Read More →

Two publishing houses, MPI Music Production International (Chelyabinsk) and Schott Music Publishers (Mainz) announced a German-Russian cooperation agreement for the Academic Edition of the Complete Works by P.I. Tchaikovsky. The project is said to receive full moral and financial support from the Russian state.  Comprising about 120 volumes, this edition will be a big project. The first volumes will be published in 2018. Read More →

Lucilin, the Luxembourg based ensemble for contemporary music has announced that in 2017 it reached 16.000 visitors through 42 performances (16 in Luxembourg, 26 abroad). 22 concerts were sold out. Read More →

The Venice Symphony (Florida) has announced the appointment of American conductor Troy Quinn, 34, as Music Director from the 2018-19 season. Quinn completed his three-year tenure as Music Director of the Juneau Symphony with his final concert on June 3, 2018. Read More →

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda: Violakonzerte Nr. 1-3 (F-Dur, Es-Dur, Es-Dur); Jean-Eric Soucy, Bratsche, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Bernard Labadie; 1 CD cpo 555167-2; Aufnahme 07/2016, Veröffentlichung 26/04/2018 (60'11) – Rezension von Remy Franck

Die weitverzweigte Musikerfamilie Benda kann für Konfusionen sorgen, wie diese CD zeigt. Der kanadische Bratschist Jean-Eric Soucy, Mitglied des SWR-Orchesters, hat auf der Suche nach drei Bratschenkonzerten von Georg Anton Benda schließlich herausgefunden, dass es diese wohl nicht gibt, dafür aber drei von Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda (1745-1814). Diese drei sind virtuos, und charakteristisch genug, um einem breiten Publikum zu gefallen.  Read More →

The Brevard Philharmonic, Brevard, North Carolina, has chosen James Fellenbaum as its new Artistic Director/Conductor. Fellenbaum is currently Resident Conductor with the Knoxville Symphony, Music Director of the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra and Director of Orchestras at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Read More →