Ingpen & Williams died on Friday when David Sigall retired.
His former partner Jonathan Groves today opened Groves Artists with many of the same clients, including Mark Elder, Graham Vick and Roderick Williams.
New website here.
The violinist has been appointed Polonsky Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music.
press release:
The Royal College of Music (RCM) has today announced the appointment of globally renowned violinist MaximVengerov as Polonsky Visiting Professor of Violin.
Throughout his 40 year career as both a violinist and conductor, Vengerov has appeared with the world’s finest orchestras and conductors and given solo recitals at major concert halls and festivals around the globe. His extensive Grammy Award winning recording output has positioned Vengerov as one of the most prolific and influential musicians of all time.
Maxim Vengerov said: ‘I am thrilled to be joining the Royal College of Music as Polonsky Visiting Professor of Violin and very much look forward to working with the RCM’s talented students. Encouraging new generations of musicians is one my greatest passions and I am very pleased to be able to help shape the future careers of violinists at one of the world’s leading music conservatoires.’
Vengerov will visit the RCM at least three times a year, working with students through regular masterclasses and individual tuition.
Musicians of the Fort Worth Symphony have rejected a new contract, which would have imposed a wage cut of between two and 7.5 percent wage cut. They are now heading for a strike ballot.
Bad times in Fort Worth. Read here.
In the bleak dawn after the inaugural Isaac Stern Shanghai Competition, it will come as small surprise that the first prize was won by a pupil of one of the judges, the prolific Zakhar Bron.
Mayu Kishima, we learn from her official biography, ‘began her musical education in Tokyo. In 2012 she completed her studies at the Cologne University of Music and Dance under Prof. Zakhar Bron. In 2009 she was a prize winner in the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels. In 2011 she won the International Music Competition Cologne and also the David Garrett Award for an outstanding interpretation. In the same year she entered the XIV Tchaikovsky Competition.’
In other words, she has been on the competition circuit for seven years before winning a significant award, in which her teacher sat on the jury. In any field other than classical music, a judge would not be allowed to award marks to his or her own protege.
This result inspires little confidence in the competition process as a means for discovering and promoting new talent.
A petition has been raised to save the music conservatory at Canada’s Mount Royal University, a school whose star graduates include Yuja Wang and Jan Lisiecki.
The heads of the Conservatory have been fired, apparently as a prelude to shutdown.
You can read the details and sign here.
The musicians and management have agreed to extend the contract deadline, which expired at midnight, for another two weeks after failing to reach agreement.
The extra time allows them to play a sorely-needed fund-raising gala on September 17.
The two sides were locked in talks for three days without nearing agreement.
The orch is financially on the brink.
