The Dresden Philharmonic has announced it is opening an academy for young orchestral players in the name of Kurt Masur.
Two local banks are backing the project, to which Tomoko Masur has given her patronage.
Lovely idea, totally appropriate. And Dresden got in first, ahead of Leipzig where Masur spent much more of his conducting years.
Gina Bachauer died in August 1976, on her way to give a concert with Antal Dorati beneath the Acropolis in Athens.
She left her house in the suburb of Halandri to the Athens Conservatory, to be developed as an education centre for young Greek musicians.
Here is what has become of it.
The new Lebrecht Album of the Week:
The question is, what took them so long? Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim, born a year apart in Buenos Aires to Jewish mothers of Russian extraction, have left it until their mid-seventies to discover common ground. Both prodigious pianists, they sailed for Europe where their paths diverged….
The highly-regarded former head of the Munich Academy of Music and Theater am Gasteig has been charged with sexual harassment of two women students.
Siegfried Mauser, 61, will appear in court on Wednesday.
He denies the charges, which are alleged to have taken place four and seven years ago.
One of the women is said to have been so shocked by the assault she crashed her bike and was injured while fleeing Professor Mauser’s office.
Full story here.
Prof. Mauser is presently in Salzburg, as head of its Biennale.
The only male in the last 22 contestants has won the 2016 London contest.
Ziyu He from China is 16 years old.
1st Prize Winner – Ziyu He, 16, China
2nd Prize Winner – SongHa Choi, 16, South Korea
3rd Prize Winner – Yu-Ting Chen, 20, Taiwan
4th Prize Winner – Jeein Kim, 20, South Korea
The jury of nine was chaired by American violinist Pamela Frank; with five former laureates Julia Fischer, Ray Chen, Tasmin Little, Ning Feng and Joji Hattori. Menuhin’s son and pianist Jeremy Menuhin, Korean violinistDong-Suk Kang and director of the Verbier Festival Martin Engstroem.
Ziyu He was born in Qingdao, China and began the violin aged 5 with Professor Xiangrong Zhang. Since 2011 he has studied at the University Mozarteum and Leopord Mozart Institute, under the tutelage of Professor Paul Roczek for violin, and since 2014 viola with Professor Thomas Riebl. He won the 2014 Eurovision Young Musicians.
