Bereaved Kavakos cancels concert
mainWe hear that the Greek virtuoso Leonidas Kavakos has withdrawn from a Berlin concert due to ‘a very close family bereavement’. He is replaced at the DSO on Sunday by Christian Tetzlaff.
We send Leonidas our condolences.
I think he cancelled in Madrid (12 – 14 May) for the same reason? Nicola Benedetti stood in for him at very short notice to play the Brahms VC.
he also cancelled in Amsterdam May 7.
His mom recently passed away.
I assumed that the careful wording (‘a very close family bereavement’) meant either that he did not want this to be widely known or that it refers to another death.