BACKIn today’s news, Game of Thrones star Charles Dance to narrate live orchestral tribute to Abraham Lincoln at BBC Proms and Edinburgh Festival, and 18 year-old superstar to play at the Proms. Concert series “Unerhörte Musik” receives “FEM-needle, string quartett “Quatuor Arod”celebrates success, and German businessman tricks people into buying fake-tickets.
The Radio Times
Veteran actor Charles Dance – star of numerous films and TV shows but best known to Game of Thrones fans as formidable patriarch Tywin Lannister – is to front an orchestral performance at the Edinburgh Festival and the BBC Proms.
The Times
Sheku Kanneh-Mason: meet classical music’s 18‑year‑old superstar
The cellist has never even been to the Proms. Now he’s their next star soloist
Pizzicato
Currentzis criticises Moscow’s organizers over high prices for concert tickets
Teodor Currentzis, the artistic director of the Perm Opera in Russia, is upset about the cost of concert tickets in Moscow.
The Daily Telegraph
Charles Dutoit: ‘Today’s young musicians have no culture’
Charles Dutoit is one of the world’s greatest conductors – and most feared. Now he’s been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society and is still in fighting spirit.
Music Teacher
Cardiff celebrates World Harp Congress handover
Cardiff will host the 2020 World Harp Congress (WHC2020), which will be the first time the event has visited Europe in 12 years.
Limelight
SO and Elder Con team up for new conducting degree
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Elder Conservatorium are offering a new postgraduate programme for conductors.
Pizzicato
Gintaras Rinkevicius named Music Director in Liepaja
The Liepaja Symphony Orchestra has hired Lithuanian conductor Gintaras Rinkevicius (*1960) as Music Director and successor to Atvars Lakstigala, who held this position since 2010.
NMZ
Deutscher Komponistenverband verleiht FEM-Nadel an die Konzertreihe „Unerhörte Musik“ Berlin
Zum dritten Mal verleiht die Fachgruppe E-Musik des Deutschen Komponistenverbandes e.V. die FEM-Nadel – Ehrennadel für besondere Verdienste um die zeitgenössische Musik. Träger dieser Auszeichnung 2017 ist die Konzertreihe „Unerhörte Musik“ im BKA-Theater Berlin.
Klassik Heute
Ein Streichquartett, das nur drei Jahre nach seiner Gründung einen der wichtigsten Wettbewerbe der klassischen Musik gewinnt, und nur ein Jahr später einen Exklusiv-Plattenvertrag erhält ist das junge französische Quatuor Arod.
BR-Klassik
Betrogene Opernfans standen ohne Tickets da
Ein Münchner Geschäftsmann betrieb mehrere Websites, über die er Tickets für die Opernaufführungen in der Arena di Verona verkaufte.
Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.1 performed by Christian Tetzlaff, our #Proms Artist of the Week. #EssentialClassics
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