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 →

American composer, pianist and pedagogue George Walker has died at the age of 96 last Thursday at Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, N.J. after a fall. Born in 1922 in Washington, D.C. he started with piano lessons at age five. Read More →

16-year-old pianist Ivan Bessonov from Russia was announced winner of Eurovision Young Musicians 2018 in Edinburgh. Also competing in the final were Hungary’s Mate Bencze on Saxophone, German violinist Mira Marie Foron, cellist Birgitta Oftestad from Norway, Czech double bassist Indi Stivín and Slovenian violinist Nikola Pajanovic. Read More →

A few days before leaving for Shanghai to attend the final of the Isaac Stern Violin Competition, impossible for me to not remember the only and highly memorable concert with Isaac Stern in Luxembourg. 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 →

Many studies analysed and described the effects of music listening in the management of pain in adult patients. Most of them found a significant effect of music on pain. A new study shows that music reduces pain perception in healthy new-borns undergoing painful medical procedures. 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 →

The Pioneer Valley Symphony, an orchestra in Greenfield, Massachusetts, has announced as its new musical director 38-year-old Ng Tian Hui. A native from Singapore, he succeeds 23-year music director Paul Phillips who was in this position for 23 years. 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 →