All News articles – Page 137
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NewsViolist Rosalind Ventris and conductor Joseph Fort announced as Artistic Directors of the Cowbridge Music Festival
Under the direction of the husband-and-wife team, the festival is set to return with a series of live concerts
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NewsLondon-based concertmaster practises and composes music during shifts as an Uber driver
Raffaele Pagano took on work as an Uber driver after Covid-19 put his musical career on hold
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ArticleViolist Geraldine Walther to head Colburn School chamber programme
Walther spent 14 years with the Takács Quartet, following almost three decades as prinicpal violist of the San Francisco Symphony
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NewsViolinist María Dueñas scoops €15,000 Rheingau Music Festival award
Given by the festival annually, the prize is intended to be ‘recognition and incentive in equal measure’
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NewsCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra players return thanks to new acoustic screen
The orchestra has announced two months of performances with live audiences from 19 May
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NewsFormer Toronto Symphony concertmaster Gerard Kantarjian has died
Kantarjian, who was 90, was born in Cairo and studied with Ivan Galamian in Philadelphia
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NewsViolinist Jessie Montgomery appointed Chicago Symphony composer in residence
Montgomery’s three-year position will see her write a series of new orchestral and chamber works
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NewsBoosey & Hawkes launches YouTube contest for string duos
An audio recording of Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne by the winning duo will be synced to the work’s score on Boosey & Hawkes’ monthly YouTube series
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NewsConcertgebouw violist Peter Sokole has died
Sokole, who has died from Covid-19, spent almost three decades assistant principal violist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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NewsCarolin Widmann receives 2020 Duisburg City Music Prize
The annual award, worth €10,000, was given to Widmann for her continued commitment to the city’s musical scene
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NewsDaniel Pioro joins Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as Associate Artist
In his new role the violinist has launched a new contemporary music collective featuring students at the RCS
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NewsBarbican to bring back concerts for socially distanced live audiences
The Live from the Barbican series will be accessible online as well as for a reduced, socially-distanced live audience from 17 May
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NewsAnne-Sophie Mutter to become president of German Cancer Aid
The German violinist takes over the role from Fritz Pleitgen
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NewsWigmore Hall to reopen with 25-concert anniversary festival
Tickets for all 25 concerts in the re-opening festival are available initially on a ballot basis to Friends of Wigmore Hall
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NewsImportant Mozart discovery to be auctioned in Berlin on 16 April
Previously part of a German private collection, the manuscript sheds light on the genesis of two Mozart compositions
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NewsJuilliard launches streaming initiative to share performances with a global audience
The Livestream Performance Schedule includes over 250 recitals from April to June
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NewsRoyal Academy of Music livestreams 25 concerts in April and May
Highlights include a residency from Sir Mark Elder, the return of the ‘Bach the European’ series and a performance of Dido and Aeneas
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NewsStreamed concert to champion climate optimism
Singers and players to perform Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ over YouTube
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NewsLuthier William Monical has died
The New-York-based luthier was an expert on bowed string instruments, particularly those of the Baroque period
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NewsCellist Tanja Tetzlaff receives Glenn Gould Bach Fellowship
The €100,000 award will go towards a film project centred on Bach’s Cello Suites
