Press Releases

NEWS  •  7 August 2026  •  Source: AVIE Records AVIE Records has opened its late-summer schedule with Rhythm Nation, a new album from New York’s PUBLIQuartet that treats rhythm as a meeting place rather than a boundary. Contemporary commissions sit alongside jazz, salsa, Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican influences, electronic sound and a three-part salute to Janet Jackson’s 1989 album

NEWS  •  4 August 2026  •  Source: Baxter PR / London Symphony Orchestra Three autumn projects from London Symphony Orchestra collaborators will bring choral theatre, multidisciplinary performance and orchestral jazz to LSO St Luke’s and the Barbican. Tangram and vocal ensemble SANSARA begin with Chronicle at LSO St Luke’s on 30 and 31 August. Developed after its Aldeburgh Festival

NEWS  •  3 August 2026  •  Source: Sinfonia Smith Square Sinfonia Smith Square has secured a £200,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation for the restoration of its Grade I listed Westminster home. The award supports Doors Open: Transforming Lives Through Music, the most substantial redevelopment of Smith Square Hall since it became a concert venue in 1969. The project

NEWS  •  23 July 2026  •  Source: Da Vinci Classics Pianist Michael Tsalka has recorded Bach’s The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, for Da Vinci Classics, approaching the late masterpiece as a living keyboard work rather than a remote exercise in counterpoint. Bach left no explicit instrumentation for the cycle, whose single principal subject is transformed through simple fugues,

NEWS  •  22 July 2026  •  Source: Da Vinci Classics Ignazio Albertini’s only surviving collection has received a rare complete recording from the Czech-German Ensemble Rýnský. Da Vinci Classics’ Sonatinae XII Violino Solo returns to music first published posthumously in 1692, revealing a violinist-composer whose career connected Italian virtuosity with the contrapuntal traditions of Central Europe. Albertini worked in

Guildhall School of Music & Drama is delighted to announce that double bassist Eduard Marcu has been awarded First Prize at the final of Junior Guildhall’s most prestigious award: The Lutine Prize. Cellist Yoko Afi was awarded the James Wilson Prize for second place.The competition took place on Saturday 20 June in Guildhall School’s Milton

Bonn, April 2026 — Momentum continues to build for American pianist Seth Schultheis, First Prize winner of the 2025 Telekom Beethoven Competition, as a new partnership aims to support not just his artistry—but the long-term sustainability of his career. Since his competition triumph, Schultheis has embarked on a high-profile run of engagements across Europe. Highlights include