Just in: Anne-Sophie Mutter joins Concertgebouw attack
NewsWe hear this morning that the influential German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has joined the petition to the Concertgebouw management in Amsterdam to reinstate two concerts it cancelled by the Jerusalem Quartet, supposedly for security reasons.
Other overnight signatories include Sir András Schiff, Sir Stephen Hough, Pinchas Zuckerman, Vladimir Jurowski and Semyon Bychkov, who is conducting the Concertgebouw orchestra this weekend.
The petition was organised by Daria Van Den Berck, Danny Driver and Mahan Esfahani, with help from slippedisc.com
In all, some ten thousand musicians have signed the two issues of the petition, on slippedisc.com and on change.org.
The damage to the Concertgebouw is incalculable. Had the organisation cared to do so, it would have paid for increased security, as has been done in Vienna, London, Brussels and elsewhere.
It refused, or failed, to show support for the musicians it engaged.
That is damn close to unforgivable.
The original petition list is now approaching 400 signatories.
1 Mahan Esfahani, harpsichordist
2 Danny Driver, pianist
3 Joshua Weilerstein, conductor
4 Nicholas Daniel, oboist
5 Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, violinist
6 Craig Rutenberg, voice coach and accompanist
7 Hana Arie-Gaifman, Director Emerita Taschner Center 92nd St Y
8 Philip Clark, musician, writer, journalist
9 Michael Fine, Grammy Award-winning producer
10 Alisa Weilerstein, cellist
11 Jan David Schmitz, Head of Programme at the Brucknerhaus Linz
12 Andrew Litton, conductor
13 Ben Goldscheider, horn player
14 Anahita Abbasi, composer
15 Katya Apekisheva, pianist
16 Gemma Rosefield, cellist
17 Amy Dickson saxophonist
18 Lucy Parham, pianist
19 Itzhak Rashkovsky, violinist
20 Shiry Rashkovsky, violist
21 Walter Reiter, violinist
22 Roman Mints, violinist
23 Lars Anders Tomter, violist
24 Ulrich Gerhartz, Director of Concerts & Artist Services Steinway UK
25 Taras Voloschuk, double bass player
26 Diana Ketler, pianist, director Sonoro Festival
27 Boris Brovtsyn, violinist
28 Stephen Waarts, violinist
29 Tom Hancox, flautist
30 Andrew Zolinsky, pianist
31 Benjamin Navarro, violinist
32 Alexander Sitkovetsky, violinist
33 Shlomy Dobrinsky, violinist
34 Edna Landau, arts consultant
35 Jack Liebeck, violinist
36 Maria Schellenberg, mezzo-soprano
37 David Benedict, critic
38 Krzysztof Chorzelski, violist
39 Anahit Kurtikyan, violinist
40 Yuri Zhislin, violinist
41 Alexandra Raikhlina, violinist
42 Natalie Clein, cellist
43 David Cohen, cellist
44 Charles Owen, pianist
45 Kathryn Stott, pianist
46 Guy Ben-Ziony, violist
47 Patrick Savage, violinist and composer
48 Simon Blendis, violinist
49 Martin Owen, horn player
50 Margaret Fingerhut, pianist
51 Oleg Kogan, cellist
52 Arcadia Quartet
53 Rasvan Dumitru, violinist
54 Timothy Ridout, violist
55 Charlotte Scott, cellist
56 Claude Frochaux, cellist
57 Robert Rinder, barrister
58 Louisa Clein, actor
59 Thomas Carroll, cellist
60 Kristina Blaumane, cellist
61 Sacha Rattle, clarinettist
62 Julius Drake, pianist
63 Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, violinist
64 Elizabeth Burley, pianist
65 Simone van der Giessen, violist
66 Polina Kogan, pianist
67 James Francis Brown, composer
68 Fiona Sinclair, CEO, Leeds Piano Competition
69 Philip Dukes, violist
70 Guy Johnson, cellist
71 Piers Lane, pianist
72 Marianna Shirinyan, pianist
73 Anthony Hewitt, pianist
74 Robert Max, cellist
75 David Aspin, violist
76 Dene Olding AM, violinist
77 Ryan Bancroft, conductor
78 Gavin Bryars, composer
79 Paul McCreesh, conductor
80 Arianna Zukermann, soprano
81 Rebecca Miller, conductor
82 Bartholomew LaFollette, cellist
83 Yuri Torchinsky, violinist
84 Alexander Kobrin, pianist
85 Tim Posner, cellist
86 Priya Mitchell, violinist
87 Dirk Mommertz, pianist
88 Reinis Zarins, pianist
89 Brian O’Kane, cellist
90 Boris Adrianov, cellist
91 Boris Petrushansky, pianist
92 Cedric Pescia, pianist
93 Gaby Lester, violinist
94 Yishai Steckler, conductor
95 José Gallardo, pianist
96 Polina Leschenko, pianist
97 Isang Enders, cellist
98 Julia Dausacker, violinist
99 Marc Coppey, violinist
100 Kolja Blacher, violinist
101 Francis Gouton
102 Guy Eshed, flautist
103 Schloss Elmau
104 Enrico Dindo, celiist
105 Hila Baggio, soprano
106 Thomas Gerbeth
107 Benjamin Yusupov, composer
108 Simone Gramaglia
109 Aylen Pritchin
110 Arin Maisky
111 Michaël Gutman, Pietrasanta in Concerto
112 Mary Jo Capps AM, Musica Viva
113 Ursula Dehne
114 Pierre Génisson
115 Miguel da Silva
116 Evgeny Kissin, pianist
117 Boris Garlitsky, violinist
118 Philippe Quint, violinist
119 Noah Bendix-Balgley
120 Jan-Erik Gustafsson, Korsholm Music Festival
121 Mariam Rüetschi, violist
122 Dudu Carmel, oboist
123 Pablo Barragán
124 Ioan-Dragos Dimitriu
125 Yaniv Elijah d’Or
126 Roman Spitzer
127 Felix Nemirovsky, Israel Philharmonic
128 Daniel Kuehnel
129 Karin Lechner
130 Yevheniya Lyoshor
131 Nicolas Dautricourt
132 Terje Mikkelsen
133 Alban Gerhardt
134 Stephanie Gonley
135 Leontina Margulis
136 Natalia Margulis
137 Jura Margulis
138 Claudio Bohórquez, cellist
139 Leonid Kerbel, Musica Mundi School
140 Hagit Hassid-Kerbel, Musica Mundi School
141 Corina Belcea, violinist
142 Hrachya Avanesyan
143 Arsen Gulua
144 Osvaldo Ferreira, Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra
145 Per Nyström, cellist
146 Erica Worth, Editor, Pianist Magazine
147 Dmitri Dichtiar
148 Raz Binyamini
149 Liza Ferschtman, violinist
150 Ivan Karizna
151 Daniel Cohen
152 Asya Gulua, pianist
153 Uri Dror, Jerusalem Music Centre
154 Kirill Gerstein, pianist
155 Giovanni Guzzo, violinist
156 Andrei Gridchuk
157 Alena Baeva, violinist
158 Pavel Berman
159 Maria Wloszczowska, violinist
160 Lucia d’Anna
161 Adrian Brendel, cellist
162 Hannah Roberts, cellist
163 Jonathan Aner
164 Nimrod Guez
165 Maria Meerovitch
166 Julian Arp
167 Arnon Erez, pianist
168 Pavel Berman
169 Avi Avital, mandolin
170 Bertrand Chamayou, pianist
171 Konstanza Hörtnagel
172 Brett Dean, violist/composer
173 Deborah Jay
174 Ariel Halevi
175 Marija Pavlovic
176 Jennie Engström
177 Reiko Hozu
178 Eyal Hofmekler
179 Abel Gomes
180 Julia Kogan
181 Shirly Laub, violinist
182 Ruth Rogers, violinist
183 Rolf Hind, pianist/composer
184 David Grimal, violinist/conductor
185 Ruth Fisher, broadcaster
186 Nana Jashvili, violinist
187 Gia Jashvili, violinist
188 Jamie Walton, cellist
189 Leonid Gorokhov, cellist
190 Neil Roxburgh, pianist
191 Pablo Hernán Benedí, violinist
192 Mathieu Herzog, conductor
193 Sergei Babayan, pianist
194 Ilya Grubert
195 Karin Lechner
196 Bob Riley, CEO Manchester Camerata
197 Nino Gvetadze, pianist
198 Horácio Ferreira
199 Diana Ketler, pianist
200 Maja Bogdanovic, cellist
201 Janne Thomason
202 Eran Haras
203 Polina Yehudi, violinist
204 Yevgeny Yehudin, clarinet
205 Ofer Falk
206 Diego Jiménez Alonso
207 Avishai Darash
208 Roberto Prosseda, pianist
209 Alessandra Ammara, pianist
210 Martha Argerich, pianist
211 Mary Kaptein, Artist Manager
212 Vadym Kholodenko, pianist
213 Alexander Kagan, violinist
214 Sergio Tiempo, pianist
215 Sergei Nakariakov, trumpeter
216 Misha Maisky, cellist
217 Sir Stephen Hough, pianist
218 Sir András Schiff, pianist
219 Steven Isserlis, cellist
220 Dmitri Sitkovetsky, violinist/conductor
221 Daniel Khalikov
222 Leonard Schreiber, violinist
223 Yoel Levi, conductor
224 Alexander Fiterstein, clarinettist
225 Pavel Kolesnikov, pianist
226 Jérôme Akoka, l’Archet Révolutionnaire
227 Anastasia Sinayskaya, ArtforFuture Vienna
228 Pinchas Zuckerman, violinist/conductor
229 Semyon Bychkov, conductor
230 Nimrod Borenstein, composer
231 Marco Riaskoff, Riaskoff Concert Management
232 Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
233 Alexander Heisler, Freiburg ZMF
234 Karina Arzumanova
235 Annie Dutoit Argerich, actor
236 Einav Yarden, pianist
237 Shai Wosner, pianist
238 Lev Germansky, luthier
239 Hagai Shaham, violinist
240 Barry Shiffman, violist
241 Joshua Bell, violinist
242 Boris Berman, pianist
243 Lilya Zilberstein, pianist
244 Yuri Gandelsman, violist
245 Bruno Monsaigeon
246 Nadia Weintraub, pianist
247 Sergey Glaktionov
248 Hed Yaron Meyerson, violinist
249 Nitzan Har’oz
250 Marielle Labeque, pianist
251 Dorian Keilhack, conductor/pianist
252 Stefano Marcocchi, violist
253 Martin Helmchen, pianist
254 Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, cellist
255 Daniel Zuker, conductor/composer/pianist
256 Liana Gourdija
257 Kajetan Prochyra, Museum of History of Polish Jews
258 Dalibor Karvay
259 Thorsten Johanns
260 Martin Fröst, clarinettist
261 Chi-chi Nwanoku, double bassist
262 Frank Braley, pianist
263 Torleif Thedéen, cellist
264 Roxanna Panufnik, composer
265 Paavo Järvi, conductor
266 Stefano Giavazzi, pianist
267 Clara Jumi-Kang, violinist
268 Inon Barnatan, pianist
269 Francesca Dego, violinist
270 Rafael Gintoli
271 Laure Favre-Kahn, pianist
272 Daniel Gortler, pianist
273 Daniel Riaskin, conductor
274 Boris Begelman, violinist
275 Andreas Brantelid, cellist
276 Michala Petri, recorder player
277 Anastasia Koslova
278 Ivan Hewitt, critic
279 Irina Zaharennkova, pianist
280 Hillel Zori, cellist
281 Jan-Peter de Graaff, composer
282 Talich String Quartet
283 Lyda Chen
284 Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, violinist & conductor
285 Vladimir Nikolic, Dealer in fine string instruments
286 Elizabeth Wilson, writer
289 Mimi Sunnerstam
290 Louis Lortie, pianist
291 Irène Kudela
292 Isabelle van Keulen, violinist
293 Iddo Bar-Shai, pianist
294 Israela Margalit, pianist/playwright
295 Diede Verpoest
296 Simone Leitão, pianist
297 Farhad Poupel, composer
298 Timothy Cobb
299 Joseph Meyer Dawson, cellist
300 George Hlawiczka, conductor
301 Matthew Schellhorn, pianist
302 Amihai Grosz, violist
303 Philip Martens, violinist
304 Peter Martens
305 Sivan & Gil Garburg
306 Klaidi Sahatci, violinist
307 Emanuel Blumin-Sint, bassoonist
308 Dmitry Gurman, violinist
309 Roberto Beltran-Zavala, conductor
310 Fabio Brunelli, violin maker
311 David Abramowitz
312 Kees Vlaardingerbroek, musicologist & artistic advisor
313 Shirley Smart, cellist
314 Aldo Sisillo, Director Teatro Comunale Modena
315 Theodosia Ntokou, pianist
316 Lotte Betts-Dean, singer
317 Judy Picker-Saiet, violinist
318 Katia Skanavi, pianist
319 Elisabet Ljungar, opera director
320 Gautier Capuçon, cellist
321 Levan Tshkadadze, clarinettist
322 Luc Tooten, cellist
323 Jakob Fichert, pianist
324 Aliya Akbergenova, pianist
325 Isabelle Levy
326 Noelle Weidmann-Ercan
327 Lin Bender AM
328 Valentin Radutiu
329 Anna Magrethe Nilsen, violinist
330 Jörg Bruckner
331 Mila Baslawskaja
332 Dima Ferschtman
333 Alberto Martini, I Virtuosi Italiani
334 Kira Marina von Bismarck, Music & Art Foundation
335 Abel Tomàs, Cuarteto Casals
336 Ruben Kleppesto
337 Frans Helmersson, cellist
338 Enrico Fagone, conductor
339 Barbara Rich, barrister
340 Leo Peeters, diplomat
341 Caroline Sageman
342 Max Beltan
343 David Wiedmer
344 Daniel Judkowski, composer
345 António Jorge Nogueira, violinist
346 Andrey Gugnin, pianist
347 Andrea Oliva, flautist
348 Stefano Giacomelli, Art Director Perosi Academy
349 Heather Kurzbauer
350 Julia Dinerstein
351 Massimo Macri, cellist
352 Tim Brackman, violinist
353 Aleksey Igudesman, Igudesman & Joo
354 Christopher Elton, pianist
355 Andrew Balio
356 Lefke Wang, violinist
357 Salvador Mas Conde, conductor
358 Marta Ephrat-Lemanska
359 Guy Eylon
360 Liora Zemstov
361 Mihaela Costea
362 Dora Schwarzberg
363 Mattia Rondelli
364 Doron Salomon, conductor
365 Vadim Schwarzburd, reporter
366 Valerie Palacios
367 Emilie Sauzeau, violinist
368 Bruno Truyens, Bruno Klassiek
369 Natsuko Inoue
370 Benjamin Levy, conductor
371 Julia Wertman, musicologist
372 Julia Sitkovetsky, soprano
373 Alessio Pianca, music manager
374 Adam Gorb, composer
375 Elizabeth Atherton, singer
376 Ailish Tynan, soprano
377 Gerard McBurney, composer
378 Guy Danel, violinist
and some more whose names seem to have got left off:
379 Gabriela Montero, pianist
380 Norman Lebrecht, writer
381 Deborah Borda, ex-president NY Philharmonic
382 Simon Rattle, conductor,
383 Lahav Shani, conductor
384 Semyon Bychkov, conductor
385 Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist
386 Robert von Bahr, record producer
387 Jonathan Kahn, lawyer
388 Igor Levit, pianist
389 Jonny Byers, cellist
390 Christopher Barrett, Tuba Player
391 Polina Goodman
392 Eran Hanany
393 Albert Frantz, pianist
394 Sergey Khanukaev, conductor
395 Diana Hereld, vocalist
396 Ronan Magill, pianist
397 Lena Khandros, Producer, Momentum Artists
398 Polina Osetinskaya, pianist
399 Naum Grubert, pianist
400 Abbie de Quant flutist
401 Ben Legebeke, violinist
402 Cressida Sharp, soprano
403 Antonio Celso Ribeiro – composer
404 Eduardo Chama, Chair of Voice Mason Gross School of the Arts
405 Hadas Carmi, composr
406 Emmanuella Reiter, violist
407 Simon Scott, violinist
408 Julia Golkhovaya, pianist
409 Milena Zlatarova, violist
410 Alexander Boot
411 Dina Yoffe, pianist
412 Michael Vaiman, violinist
413 Daniel Vaiman, pianist
414 Anastasia Voltchok, pianist
415 Ted Rosenthal, pianist
416 Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Can I join just as a concerned human being?
Very impressive list! Well done SD
I’m troubled by the title, joins the attack? Is it meant to be ambivalent? Maybe it’s just me.
I too was confused by the title.
Where were all these people when South African musicians where boycotted? Israel behaves a lot worse than any National Party government.
Go live in a Muslim theocracy that allows marital rape and the killing of LGBT people. I’m SICK of you know-nothing terrorist supporters.
I don’t want to live in a Muslim theocracy. That doesn’t mean I should applaud the extermination of people by another group of people, just as I don’t applaud the Holocaust. I don’t pick and choose my holocausts, in other words.
Very well said … consistency is critical to legitimacy!
Exterminate them? Before writing such dangerous nonsense, first do some research and learn what the Arab population was there before the Jews returned and Israel became a state and what it is now; they have multiplied immensely. And if Israel wanted all Gazans dead, they could’ve accomplished that within days of the brutal 10/7 slaughter … instead, they are warning Gaza civilians to leave areas where they plan to attack Hamas…that is unheard of in war. But the ones who DO want to exterminate a people is Hamas (and many Arabs and Muslims)…it is their goal that they do not hide that they want to exterminate all Jews. And to equate what Israel is doing to protect itself and its people and simply continue to exist, as they’ve had to do in too many wars (none of which they started), with the true Holocaust, the indiscriminate slaughter of millions of Jews and also many other innocents simply because of who they were, is despicable and shameful and, I dare say, unforgivable (but I must leave that to those whose right it is to forgive, or not, such a thing).
John, the war is horrible and too many civilians have been and are being killed but Hamas started this when they invaded Israel and slaughtered men, women and children in cold blood. The war in Gaza is not a genocide no matter how many people yell that it is. How are the Gazans being totally exterminated? The war is dragging on because Israel is not obliterating everyone. If Hamas released the hostages (war crime) the conflict would soon be over. Hamas cares nothing for their people and their own charter calls for the extermination of jews.
[whispers] You know the Islamism apologists are Islamism apologists *because* they are woman-hating gay-hating filth, right? Licking the jihadi boot is just the most convenient disguise of today.
I’m sick of people who can’t see any nuance whatsoever. Being against a particular war does not mean being against or for a certain ideology. Are you against the war in Ukraine because Russia annexed, occupied, and invaded Ukraine, or because the Russian government is homophobic? You can condemn different things for different reasons. Do not be a simpleton and mix everything together like a child.
Do you not realize that those acts are being perpetrated by Israelis as well against the Palestinian civilians?
Most of these people are tryhard white Euro imperialists, so no surprises here. Complete double standards.
Even Iranian names are here – I guess it is a good career move for the industry))))
Natasha Sher violinist
Thomas Jung, impresario
Even by SD’s high standards, this is just about the most formidable posting I have ever seen. It’s heart-warming to see so many prominent names listed but also heartbreaking that this had to be targeted at the Concertgebouw, an oustanding institution. They should have known better.
Right thing. Thank you for doing the right thing.
Thomas Conlin, conductor
I would like to sign this list. I am the Composer-in-Residence of the New York Chamber Players Orchestra, Giacomo Franci, Music Director. Thank you for sharing and bringing this to my attention.
I didn’t see Klaus Makela in the list
Make me wonder
I read that the sat nt concert has been reinstated, in the small hall. And the 2nd concert is still canceled. Is this correct? I petitioned for both concerts to be reinstated, in the largest halls as scheduled, to hold the huge audiences the J’m Qtet will surely draw and who’ve surely already bought tickets.
Well done !!!
Sick of too much politics and radical agendas in music !!
Thanks Slippedisc for stand up
No to any racism or discrimination in music.. let the Jewish or Russian or Ukranian or Chinese Muslims Catholics play music for Goodness sake !!
Angela Cockburn, mezzo-soprano soubrette, actor
Breathe easy the concertgebouw has bowed to pro-jewish pressure and done a u-turn
Cancel i$rael already.