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Guardian
Elim Chan wins 2014 Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition
The 28-year-old UK conductor is competition’s first female winner
Telegraph
Are theatre audiences too white?
The British performing arts – and theatre in particular – are under fire for attracting predominantly white, middle-class audiences. Is this criticism fair?
BBC Music Magazine
Voce Chamber Choir performs our exclusive carol
Suzi Digby conducts the London-based choir in Thomas Hewitt Jones’s Lullay, my liking
The Strad
Violin professor Maya Glezarova turns 90: former students pay tribute
Mikhail Kopelman, Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Liana Gourdjia recall their studies with the denizen of the Russian School of violin playing
International Arts Manager
Rei Hotoda named associate conductor of Utah Symphony
Rei Hotoda has been named associate conductor of the Utah Symphony, making the American maestra the first woman to hold the position.
Gramophone
Warner Classics appoints new UK head
Lemanski moves from indie to major
Klassik Akzente
APPlaus, APPlaus! – iTunes prämiert die Vivaldi-App der DG!
Mit der App „Vivaldis Vier Jahreszeiten“ hat die Deutsche Grammophon einen originellen Weg gefunden, die beiden Komponisten Antonio Vivaldi und Max Richter und ihre Beziehung tu den „Vier Jahreszeiten“ aus allen Blickwinkeln zu beleuchten.
klassik.com
Kritik und Distanzierungen nach Scheckübergabe an Separatistenführer
Geldstrafe für Sopranistin Anna Netrebko?
El País
Al Ateneu Musical de Cullera gana el histórico certamen Villa de Altea
El concurso internacional ha coincidido con el 125 aniversario de la Sociedad Filarmónica Alteanense
Codex Flores
Vorwürfe gegenüber Morton Feldman
Die amerikanische Komponistin Bunita Marcus, die jahrelang end mit dem 1987 verstorbenen Morton Feldman gearbeitet hat, erhebt diesem gegenüber schwere Vorwürfe des sexuellen Missbrauchs und der professionellen Ausbeutung.
BBC Music Magazine @MusicMagazine: Daniil Trifonov’s fantastic recent performance at Carnegie Hall is now available to watch, for free, on our website: http://bit.ly/1IyXpmP
Sinfini Music @SinfiniMusic: Messiah time again! @CJGillett can’t get a Handel on the number of times he’s had to sing it http://bit.ly/1Aeqiii
Bachtrack @bachtrack: It’s Messiaen’s birthday! Here is his piece for flute and piano, Le merle noir: http://ow.ly/FEv2e
Voce Chamber Choir. Photo: BBC Music Magazine