Pick of the Week

The Joseph Joachim scholar Robert Eschbach has discovered a grovelling letter dated March 1858 from Richard Wagner to the great

Friends are reporting the death of Derek Holman, a Cornish-born composer who migrated to Canada in 1965. He taught at

The Canadian pianist Tony Siqi Yun has just been announced as winner of the China International Music Competition, with a

The South Carolina-born Jonathon Heyward, has been named Chief Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, starting January 2021. Heyward, 26, is

The international baritone Marco Vratogna is feeling aggrieved. His manager claims that he has been written out of Friday’s big-screen

Gifts have been pouring into Birmingham ever since Mirga arrived as music director. This morning’s press drop: The City of

The PRs are putting round a video of Teng Li, principal violist at the LA Phil, playing the viola that

This is Professor Rob Haskins. Not one of your dustier musicologists.  

We hear that David Cooper has been named principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. David, originally principal at the

We are saddened to learn of the death during the night of Mira Zakai, an Israeli contralto who won a

From the press release: The orchestra academies of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra