BACKIn today’s news: Australian National Piano Awards finalists have been announced. Mariinsky Orchestra performs inaugural concerts at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabia. Open air opera in Berlin attracts audience of 62,000 people. Manuscript of Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ to go to auction. Conducting student to become new artistic assistant with the Sächsischen Bläserphilharmonie. Royal Academy of Music and Edition Records announce winner of 2018 Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize. Aram Khachaturian International Competition announces winner.
Limelight Magazine
Australian National Piano Award Finalists Announced
The finalists have been announced for the 2018 Australian National Piano Award, with 14 pianists going on to compete for $68,000 in cash and prizes in Shepparton, Victoria, in September.
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Mariinsky Orchestra inaugurated concert hall in Saudi Arabia
Russian Mariinsky Orchestra played the inaugural concerts at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra). The center, located in the eastern city of Dhahran, is to become a cultural hub for the Saudi Kingdom.
Rhinegold
Leonidas Kavakos signs to Sony Classical
Violinist Leonidas Kavakos has signed to Sony Classical. His first solo project with Sony is Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Following this he will record Bach’s complete solo Sonatas and Partitas.
Rhinegold
First RCM Yamaha Clarinet Prize winner announced
Lewis Graham has won the inaugural Royal College of Music (RCM) Yamaha Clarinet Prize. The prize was open to RCM students in their second year of an undergraduate music degree who had been awarded a distinction in their first-year recitals.
Royal Academy of Music
We are pleased to announce that Academy student, vibraphonist and composer Jonny Mansfield has won the 2018 Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize.
Gramophone
Aram Khachaturian International Competition announces winner
The winner of the Ninth Aram Khachaturian International Competition and Festival has been named as 19-year-old Andrei Ionita. Launched in Yerevan on June 6, this year’s competition focused on the cello and celebrated the 110th anniversary of its namesake, Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian.
iNews
Sleeping with a “maestro” has helped some female classical musicians win better roles, the opera star Danielle de Niese has suggested. Although she has never been sexually harassed herself, the Australian-born singer said female colleagues had used sex for career advancement.
The New York Times
‘Sutra’ Returns to Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival
Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival this fall will offer a range of works, from Haydn to hip-hop dance to “Waiting for Godot.”
klassik.com
Paris: Opern-Manuskript von Mozart kommt unter den Hammer
In Paris kommt ein vierseitiges Manuskript der Hochzeit des Figaro von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart zur Versteigerung. Der Schätzwert des Entwurfes einer Szene aus dem letzten Akt der 1786 erschienenen Oper des Komponisten beläuft sich auf 500.000 Euro.
Kultur Radio
“Staatsoper für alle” lockt 62.000 Menschen
Erstmals seit 2012 fand die Veranstaltung wieder mit einem Open-Air-Konzert bei strahlendem Sonnenschein am Samstagmittag und einer Opern-Live-Übertragung am Sonntagabend in Berlin statt.
Musik Heute
Dirigierstudent wird Assistent bei Sächsischer Bläserphilharmonie
Der Dirigierstudent Benjamin Huth wird ab September 2018 künstlerischer Assistent bei der Sächsischen Bläserphilharmonie. Der 26-Jährige werde neben seinem Studium dem Chefdirigenten Thomas Clamor assistieren, teilte die Leipziger Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” am Montag mit.
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— Gramophone (@GramophoneMag) June 18, 2018
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