Classical News
In today’s news, the Tagesspiegel announces Jakub Hrůša as the new Chief Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony and Sinfini investigates the price of an opera education. Also a strike at the Opera de Paris and Hungarian conductor delays concert to criticise Europe’s response to refugee crisis.
Gramophone
Jakub Hrůša named new Chief Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony
Jakub Hrůša has been named as the new Chief Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony, from the beginning of the 2016 season.
Classical Music Magazine
Guildhall announces new creative entrepreneurs
The Guildhall School of Music & Drama has announced its third cohort of Creative Entrepreneurs.
Sinfini Music
Opera education: Overpriced/unnecessary?
When Christopher Gillett started out as a singer, his education came free (courtesy of a Government grant) and lessons were arranged at his discretion. Yet aspiring young opera singers these days can face up to a decade of postgraduate education (with a correspondingly eye-watering pricetag).
Classic fm
Top Hungarian conductor delays concert to criticise Europe’s response to refugee crisis
In a speech before a concert in Berlin yesterday the great conductor Iván Fischer called the EU’s policies ‘dated’ and ‘obsolete’ and called on European countries to allow refugees to register in whichever country they choose.
Royal Opera House
The Opera Platform to offer more live relays during 2015/16
Streaming platform to offer more opportunities to catch productions from Europe’s top opera houses during the coming season.
Der Tagesspiegel
Bis zur Pressekonferenz wurde sein Name geheim gehalten. Nun ist es raus: Jakub Hrůša wird ab 2016 am Pult der Bamberger Symphoniker stehen. Der 1981 geborene tschechische Dirigent löst dann Jonathan Nott ab.
Musik heute
Wiener Philharmoniker geben Benefizkonzert für Flüchtlinge
Die Wiener Philharmoniker veranstalten am 28. September ein Benefizkonzert für die Flüchtlingshilfe. Christoph Eschenbach dirigiert im Wiener Konzerthaus die beiden letzten Mozart-Sinfonien sowie Richard Wagners “Wesendonck-Lieder” mit der Mezzosopranistin Elisabeth Kulman, teilte das Orchester am Montag mit.