This week, the Juilliard School announced that Orli Shaham is joining the prestigious school’s piano faculty in the 2022-23 academic year. Ms. Shaham is an alumna of the school (Pre-College ’93; and the cross-registration program with Columbia University ’97), and for the past two years has taught at Juilliard as an interim faculty member. Pianists Soyeon Kate Lee and …
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The CBSO has announced the appointment of six new Assistant Conductors. Marking the first time the orchestra has appointed a cohort of Assistant Conductors, the scheme also builds on the orchestra’s rich history of working with some of the world’s most exciting conducting talent. Bertie Baigent, Olivia Clarke, Otis Enokido-Lineham, Jack Lovell-Huckle, Charlotte Politi and Konstantinos Terzakis start work …
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The Verbier Festival and Deutsche Grammophon are delighted to announce the launch of Verbier Festival Gold – a joint venture between the two classical music powerhouses. Boasting a vast archive overflowing with precious gems captured in the Festival’s concert halls in the Swiss Alps, this new record label will make the Verbier Festival experience more accessible to …
Opera Holland Park is delighted to announce a new commission and world premiere for 2023: Itch. Based on Simon Mayo’s bestselling novels Itch and Itch Rocks, composer Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton have been commissioned to create a new opera for Opera Holland Park. Its hero is Itchingham Holte, a teenage scientist on a mission to collect …
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On Friday 11 March 2022, award-winning conductor John Andrews will conduct a concert to mark International Women’s Day with British mezzo-soprano Heather Lowe and St Paul’s Sinfonia. The concert features Louise Farrenc’s Overture in E flat, Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, Emilie Mayer’s Symphony in F minor, and the modern premiere of Amy Beach’s solo cantata Jephthah’s Daughter. John Andrews said: ‘One of the greatest delights of my professional life is being able to present …
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This March, the ‘hilarious production’ that ‘combines clever comedy and sublime arias’ (Daily Express), Mozart’s Così fan tutte returns to the English National Opera (ENO). Last staged in 2014, Mozart’s dark comic masterpiece that is ‘funny, fast and farcical’ (What’s On Stage), is brought to life by the multi-award winning director and Artistic Director of Improbable, Phelim …
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In an evocative new staging, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, “the world’s opera capital” (The New York Times) presents a production of the opera Thomas as part of its 2022 its ”Ja Mai” festival during its 2021-22 season. This significant work is by the Austrian, Georg Friedrich Haas, who is regularly described as the world’s most important living composer. Existential …
The BBC SSO has appointed Ryan Wigglesworth as its new Chief Conductor from September 2022. As a world renowned conductor, composer and pianist, Wigglesworth is one of the foremost musicians of his generation. Ryan Wigglesworth said: I feel immensely privileged to be starting this journey with the wonderful and uniquely versatile musicians of the BBC SSO, a journey which …
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● New Music Biennial 2022 will celebrate its ten-year anniversary with previous New Music Biennial works performed at the festival alongside brand-new commissions ● Composers and music creators featured include: Yazz Ahmed, Paul Purgas, AFRODEUTSCHE, Martin Green, Rakhi Singh / Vessel, Keeley Forsyth, Coby Sey, Roopa Panesar, Dr Toby Young, Philip Herbert, Anna Meredith, Brian …
On 3 March 2022, the Barbican will celebrate its 40th birthday with an eclectic and vibrant programme of events, exhibitions, films, concerts, dance and theatre showcasing the Barbican’s unique role as an internationally-acclaimed multi-disciplinary venue, located in the heart of the City of London. Since 1982, the Barbican has welcomed millions of visitors and thousands of …
