The BBC Proms will open in Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama next week, ‘presented and sponsored by Daiwa Securities Group and supported by the Scottish Government’.

10 Jim Carr, Canadian Cabinet minister, formerly played oboe in the Winnipeg Symphony. 9 Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer, played oboe in the army 8 Marcel

We’ve received a long, rambling complaint from Mannes students on restrictions as to what they can play in recitals and when. Aside from the usual

Anna Netrebko is in Belarus, feeling patriotic.   View this post on Instagram   Hello from Minsk, capital of Belarus! It’s beautiful here, let’s go

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:   … My feeling is that Daniil Trifonov and Yannick Nézet-Séguin have set the benchmark for the next

In her first appointment as artistic director, Rosetta Cucchi has appointed Francesco Cilluffo as principal guest conductor for the next 3 years. Francesco is also

Colleagues are reporting the death of Hansheinz Schneeberger, a Swiss violnist who gave the world premieres of Béla Bartók’s long-buried first concerto in 1958, as

Distressing campus news. The Eastman Philharmonia is due to tour eight cities in China over 12 days in December. But not the whole orchestra. Three

… not to mention a Hindemith encore. Christopher Morley’s reviews last night in CBSO100:  CBSO AND RBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA                         Symphony Hall ***** Close your eyes

The international opera critic Larry L. Lash has been troubled by the lack of investigation into widespread child abuse by leading opera personalities. He has

The Bertelemann-backed Neue Stimmen Competition, which aims to discover the next generation of opera stars, succeeds mainly in demonstrating that the traditional wellsprings of opera