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March 19, 2025
The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025
Opera for Everyone The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 will be ten days of Operas, Concerts, and Education Workshops throughout the most beautiful area of Britain. Following our Opera Festivals in 2021 and…
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March 19, 2025
Award-winning festival, Manchester Classical, returns to celebrate the city’s rich classical music scene
The festival includes concerts by the Hallé, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, English National Opera, Manchester Collective, Riot Ensemble and Royal Northern College of Music Festival opens with a Steve Reich…
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March 15, 2025
79th Concours de Genève : Applications now open for the viola and conducting competitions
The Concours de Genève is now accepting applications for its 2025/2026 viola and conducting competitions, offering talented musicians the opportunity to take part in one of the world’s most prestigious international music competitions. VIOLACOMPETITION2025 The viola competition is open to candidates born after 12 November 1995. The deadline for registration is 10 April 2025. Forty shortlisted candidates will present a video recital, which will be broadcast online from 8 to 14 September 2025. From these, eight semi-finalists will be selected to take part in the semi-final and final rounds in Geneva from 6 to 12 November 2025. The three finalists will perform with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, presenting L. Albisetti’s compulsory concerto Nouvel Élan – winner of the 2024 composition competition – as well as a concerto of their choice from a set of prescribed pieces. Legendary violist Tabea Zimmermann, winner of the first prize at the Concours de Genève in 1982, will chair the international jury alongside Tomoko Akasaka, Ettore Causa, Hsin-Yun Huang, Cynthia Phelps, Jean Sulem and German Tcakulov. CONDUCTINGCOMPETITION2025/2026 The conducting competition is open to candidates born after 13 November 1991. The deadline for entries is 7 May 2025. Lasting two years, the competition will begin with the first two rounds from 31 October to 3 November 2025, followed by the semi-finals and final in November 2026. Participants will have the opportunity to conduct prestigious ensembles, including the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, the Ensemble Contrechamps and the Haute école de musique de Genève Orchestra. Between the 2025 and 2026 editions, the six semi-finalists will take part in masterclasses, workshops and professional meetings. The official jury, made up of conductors, composers and renowned experts, will be announced shortly. PRIZESANDCAREERDEVELOPMENTPROGRAMME In addition to a wide range of official and special prizes, the winners will benefit from the…
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March 14, 2025
Northern Aldborough Festival Tickets Go on Sale
Featuring Jacqui Dankworth, Dame Sarah Connolly, Dame Imogen Cooper, Fantasia Orchestra and Matthew Parris. Tickets for one of Yorkshire’s leading classical music festivals, the Northern Aldborough Festival, go on sale…
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March 13, 2025
Edinburgh International Festival Breaks Boundariesin a Year Exploring ‘The Truth We Seek’
1–24 AUGUST 2025eif.co.uk / @edintfest|Edinburgh International Festival’s 2024 programme offers opportunities to experience world-class artists in thought-provoking and unconventional ways – including an eight-hour choral extravaganza, a distinctive outdoor promedande dance…
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March 13, 2025
Hollywood star Bill Murray to take Birmingham on an ‘unexpected journey’ with gig at Symphony Hall for New Worlds tour
The Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters star brings a performance described by the Chicago Tribune as “a show no-one else could have done” to Birmingham for one night only.Making a very…
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March 13, 2025
Waterperry Opera Festival announces search for a new CEO
Co-founder and outgoing CEO, Guy Verrall-Withers, to leave after 2025 festival WATERPERRY, OXFORDSHIRE – 12 March 2025 – Waterperry Opera Festival today announces that the board of trustees has initiated…
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March 13, 2025
ROSL announces its Gold Medal finalists and Collaborative Piano prize winner for the 2025 Annual Music Competition.
This week, the last of four solo rounds for the ROSL Annual Music Competition concluded, seeing violinist Mabelle Young-Eun Park join pianist Rafael Kyrychenko, soprano Madeleine Perring and oboist Ewan…
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March 7, 2025
Cheltenham Music Festival announces “Vibrant, Energising” programme in 80th year
Cheltenham Music Festival has announced a “vibrant, energising programme of real breadth, depth and quality” to celebrate 80 years of championing, cultivating and inspiring classical music in the UK and…
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March 6, 2025
The third Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition opens for entries
The third Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition is now accepting applicants from aspiring conductors across the world. This prestigious competition provides one talented conductor with a platform to develop their skills on…