BACKThe Telegraph
Online piano star Valentina Lisitsa gets Royal Albert Hall debut
YouTube star and and virtuoso pianist Valentina Lisitsa signs record deal and will play a concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
Jessica Duchen
This year’s International Wimbledon Music Festival is ‘A Music World Fair’ – a tremendously international job, lighting up South West London with performances by the Kopelman String Quartet, Alina Ibragimova, Nicholas Daniel and Sam West, Christine Brewer, Zuill Bailey, Cristina Ortiz, Mark Padmore and many more.
NY Times
Philadelphia Orchestra Submits Plan to Cut Debt
The Philadelphia Orchestra has laid out its plan to erase debts and cut costs in a major step toward exiting bankruptcy court.
The Guardian
King Priam, a pacifist’s opera, can still shed light on the trauma of war
Half a century after its first showing, Michael Tippett’s libretto based on the lliad is a fitting work for today.
Fischer-Dieskau’s 12 best recordings
Martin Kettle’s pick of the great baritone’s recorded output.
LA Times
Glenn Dicterow leaving New York Philharmonic, joining USC faculty
Glenn Dicterow, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for more than 30 years, will be leaving the venerated orchestra and joining the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles.
New West Symphony names Marcelo Lehninger as new music director
Marcelo Lehninger, the young Brazilian German maestro who serves as an assistant conductor for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has been named music director of the New West Symphony, which is based in Thousand Oaks.
Classical Music Magazine
Classical singles chart greeted with scepticism by industry
The launch of a weekly classical singles chart, the first of which will be released on 28 May, has been greeted enthusiastically by crossover artists but more sceptically by the core classical sector.
Gramophone
Anne-Sophie Mutter receives Distinguished Leadership Award
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has been awarded the Atlantic Council’s 2012 Distinguished Artistic Leadership Award, recognising her as ‘one of the most significant leaders of our society’.
