Len Blavatnik, owner of  large chunk of the music business, has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday List. He has donated a school of government to Oxford University and an extension to the Tate Modern gallery.

The Halle Orchestra music director Sir Mark Elder has been made a Companion of Honour, as has the singer-songwriter Sir Paul McCartney.

The composer George Benjamin receives a knighthood

The mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly is made a Dame.

The Canadian baritone Gerald Finley is made CBE.

The double-bass player and orchestra founder Chi-chi Nwanoku becomes OBE, as do baritone Roderick Williams and European Union Youth Orchestra founder Justine Bryer.

Congratulations to all.

A last-minute LSO search for a Mahler 3 conductor on June 25 to replace Harding, who has hurt his wrist, has yielded Robert Trevino, 33, an American who is music director with the Basque Symphony Orchestra.

The Mongolian baritone Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar was named joint winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Song prize. He shares the prize with the Scottish mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison.

The defeated finalists were John Chest, Iurii Samoilov and Louise Alder.

Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, a 2015 winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition grand prix, will compete again on Sunday in the Cardiff competition’s main final, as will Morison. Both are hot contenders.

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