2nd April: Opera North’s residency for BAME artists returns, Opera Holland Park and Gareth Malone unite for Opera Awards and Musikmesse Festival in Frankfurt
Tuesday 2nd April '19
Opera North’s residency for BAME artists returns Opera North’s Resonance residency, for professional artists from BAME backgrounds, returns for its latest programme this month continuing into May 2019.Launched in 2017 and supported by the PRS Foundation’s …
Read17th January: Sony Music Entertainment appoints new head of masterworks, Alisa Weilerstein signs to Pentatone and Berlin State Opera to start video-streaming
Wednesday 17th January '18
In today's news: The Royal Opera House has announced the five singers who will join the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in September and the London A Cappella Festival has named choirmaster and broadcaster Gareth …
Read16th December: Parents dig deep to fund piano lessons: Abigail Pogson new manager of Sage Gateshead: WNO puts ‘invisible people’ on stage
Tuesday 16th December '14
Classical News Classical Music MagazineAbigail Pogson appointed to manage Sage GatesheadSpitalfields Music chief executive Abigail Pogson is to become managing director of Sage Gateshead in May, taking over from Anthony Sargent.The GuardianWNO puts opera's 'invisible people' …
Read12th December: Arvo Pärt interview, André Rieu sells out Romanian concert tickets in hours and Welsh choir wins UK Choir of the Year Competition
Friday 12th December '14
Classical News The TelegraphArvo Pärt interview: 'music says what I need to say'A rare audience with the monk-like Estonian minimalist who may be the world's greatest living composerClassic FMAndré Rieu sells out Romanian concert tickets in …
Read24th November: Y=X factor: how to write the perfect song, Simon Rattle’s still unknown successor, Metropolitan Opera with 22 million deficit
Monday 24th November '14
Classical News Guardian Y=X factor: how to write the perfect song Can science help us write a hit? Mezzo soprano and physicist Christine Rice goes in search of a formula for the most popular songs – from Handel …
Read14th November: The world’s fastest-playing pianist, James Horner: How I wrote Pas de Deux and 42nd International Viola Congress to take place in Portugal this month.
Friday 14th November '14
Classical News TelegraphWatch: the world's fastest-playing pianistUkrainian Lubomyr Melnyk claims that he plays 19.5 piano notes on each hand every secondClassic FMHow I wrote… Pas de Deux – James HornerThe 'Titanic' takes us through his first …
ReadLaunch of BBC Music with “The Impossible Orchestra”
Wednesday 8th October '14
At 8pm last night BBC viewers and listeners everywhere were in for a treat...In their first ever pan-channel broadcast the BBC launched BBC Music, an ambitious wave of new programmes, innovative partnerships and ground-breaking music initiatives …
Read25th September: Tributes to Christopher Hogwood, Celebrity Choir for Charity and BBC Singers Celebrations
Thursday 25th September '14
The Guardian Christopher Hogwood obituary Leading figure of the early music revival as conductor of the Academy of Ancient Music, harpsichordist and musicologist The BBC Singers: 90 years young today The UK’s only full-time professional choir celebrates its 90th …
Read29th August: Hollywood’s John Williams exhibition, Google Doodle boosts Debussy sales, and a large-scale recording of Britten’s War Requiem
Thursday 29th August '13
Classic FM OnlineJohn Williams exhibition to open in HollywoodJohn Williams is to be the subject of a new exhibition at the Hollywood Museum in Los Angeles, beginning this weekendDebussy Google Doodle boosts music salesAfter Google …
Read24th April: Britten Sinfonia, Emmanuel Joel-Hornak and Gareth Malone
Wednesday 24th April '13
GramophoneBritten Sinfonia launches Musically GiftedThe Britten Sinfonia is launching 'Musically Gifted', a flexible funding scheme, which allows audiences to contribute anything from £10 to £10,000 to a new commission.Classical Music MagazineEmmanuel Joel-Hornak announced as Scottish Opera chiefScottish …
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