Pick of the Week

IMG’s Nick Mathias has signed the Santa Cecilia concertmaster Roberto González-Monjas to his conductor list. Roberto has been spending his summers conducting ensembles

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Players’ Association agreed today on a three-year contract extension, six months

Opera Tampa has shared with local media the reason that Daniel Lipton left his job last year. ‘He caught up

Germany’s equality commissioner has asked for the noun ‘Fatherland’ to be removed from the national anthem, along wth the adjective

E. Randol Schoenberg, the composer’s grandson, has found a wonderful letter from the old man, declining a chance to introduce

Given her predilection for cutting-edge contemporary, her Vienna debut opera is rather retro. Gottfried von Einem’s Dantons Tod will celebrate

Friends remind us that today would have been the 70th birthday of Richard Hickox, felled in 2008 by a heart

Brazilian musicians are in mourning for the French-born bassoonist Noel Devos, who died at the weekend, aged 89. Devos (born

The international period music performer Andrew Arceci has sent us these pictures of his viola da gamba, smashed to bits

The Academy Award for best original score went to Alexandre Desplat for The Shape of Water. Desplat recorded the score

Amir Mandel in Haaretz has the background story of a young man’s vertical ascent. He follows a simple rule:  ‘If it sounds