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The Berkeley Ensemble’s New Cobbett Prize for Composition 2014 has a winner!
The Berkeley Ensemble and the panel of judges for the New Cobbett Prize for Composition are delighted to announce Samuel Wesley Lewis’s Sequenza as the winner of the 2014 award
The Guardian
Alan Rusbridger to stand down as Guardian editor-in-chief
After 20 years at the paper Rusbridger will leave next summer and replaces Liz Forgan as chair of the Scott Trust in 2016
As Christmas approaches, let’s focus on Handel’s famous oratorio and some of the weirder approaches to the Hallelujah Chorus. If you like your Handel with added psychedelic trance, LED lights and electric guitars, you’re in the right place
The Independent
ENO blames Arts Council cuts after production of Orfeo is cancelled
Funding is set to fall by nearly £5m next year
Classical Music Magazine
Patrick Lemanski to move to Warner Classics in January
Patrick Lemanski, the managing director of Harmonia Mundi UK, is to take the same post at Warner Classics UK in January. That surprise announcement came from Alain Lanceron, president of Warner Classics, at a pre-Christmas reception in London.
International Arts Manager
Welsh choir wins UK Choir of the Year Competition
The UK’s leading amateur choral contest concluded at an event hosted by choirmaster Gareth Malone (pictured) at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.
Klassik.com
Mailänder Sinfonieorchester wartet auf Subventionen aus Rom
Orchester fordert schnelle Überweisung von 3 Millionen Euro
Musik Heute
Bechstein Stiftung gibt 50. Klavier an Schule
Die Carl Bechstein Stiftung hat zum 50. Mal einer Schule ein Klavier kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellt.
Pizzicato
Chung droht mit Rücktritt beim ‘Seoul Philharmonic’
Der Dirigent Myung-Whun Chung hat, koreanischen Presseberichten zufolge, dem Bürgermeister von Seoul ein Ultimatum gesetzt: entweder die Direktorin des ‘Seoul Philharmonic’, Park Hyun-jung, wird entlassen, oder aber er wird als Chefdirigent zurücktreten.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Receives $20 million Donation
The Los Angeles Philharmonic announced that David C. Bohnett, Chairman of the David Bohnett Foundation, has pledged a $20 million gift to the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Público.es
El tenor Juan Diego Flórez canta a la paz bajo la cúpula de Barceló
El peruano cantará este miércoles en Ginebra en el primer “Concierto por la Paz”, coincidiendo con el Día Internacional de los Derechos Humanos.
BBC Front Row @BBCFrontRow: We discuss how the Xmas truce in the WW1 trenches has been portrayed on film, music videos and now the @TheRSC: http://bbc.in/1um8LB6
Britten Sinfonia @BrittenSinfonia:Journeys in 20th century American music – Sarah Connolly @spconnolly joins us in Jan 2015 – read the press release http://www.brittensinfonia.com/news/article/jacqueline-shave-in-recital-cancelled …
The ENO’s Orfeo was due to be staged at the Bristol Old Vic. Photo found at The Independent