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In today’s news: Ed Conway discusses the power that the arts give Britain, Classical Music Magazine announces the winner of the 2015 Joachim Violin Competition & Gramophone reports that Antonio Pappano and Warner Classics have renewed their recording partnership
The Times
Why the arts put Britain on the world stage
Our creative industries may not generate the billions that banking does. But the ‘soft power’ they give us is immense
Classical Music Magazine
Maxwell Davies battles cancer once again
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is undergoing chemotherapy once again after receiving the news that his leukaemia had returned
Classic FM
John Rutter launches hunt for lost carol composer with a little help from John Suchet
Choral composer launches search for woman who wrote prize-winning carol as a girl in 1975. Can you help find her?
Classical Music Magazine
Sergei Dogadin wins 2015 Joachim Violin Competition
The 27-year-old Russian violinist received a €50,000 (£37,077) cash prize, a CD recording with Naxos, and a number of international concert engagements following his performance of Shostakovich’s first violin concerto with Hendrick Vestmann and the NDR Radiophilharmonie
Gramophone
Pappano and Warner Classics renew recording
Antonio Pappano and Warner Classics are to continue their long-standing recording relationship
Der Tagesspiegel
Aus einer Sparidee von Klaus Wowereit erwuchs ein utopisches Projekt: die Barenboim-Said-Akademie. Im Sommer 2016 soll sie fertig sein
KlassikAkzente
Hochdekoriert! Die Verleihung des ECHO Klassik im ZDF
Der ECHO Klassik ist einer der wichtigsten Musikpreise der Welt. Am 18. Oktober werden auch zahlreiche Deutsche Grammophon-Künstler mit der begehrten Trophäe ausgezeichnet. Das ZDF überträgt den festlichen Abend
Pizzicato
Nina Tichman wird neue künstlerische Leiterin der Andernacher Musiktage
Die Pianistin Nina Tichman, die als Solistin, erfolgreiche Kammermusikerin und auch als Lehrende an der Musikhochschule Köln tätig ist, übernimmt erstmalig die künstlerische Leitung des Festivals ‘Andernacher Musiktage’ 2016 auf Burg Namedy
La Vanguardia
Nace el ‘MUV!’ para impulsar la música en directo en Valencia
Además de actuaciones, habrá un debate sobre la importancia social y económica de la música y su papel en la construcción de ‘marca-ciudad’
San Francisco Classical Voice
MacKellan to Leave 42nd Street Moon
Few performing arts organizations are identified so closely with their founder/director as 42nd Street Moon is with Greg MacKellan, so it’s surprising news that he is leaving the positions/organization/town at the end of the 2015-2016 season
Jazz UK: @JazzUK Which #4JazzFestival artists should we focus on this week? @JulArgTetra @ImagineerUK @mishamamusic @CTobinSinger… Tweet your favourites!
Barbican Centre @BarbicanCentre ‘Conducting is a gift of nature… how you feel the movement of the music’: Riccardo Chailly talks to @GuardianMusic http://bit.ly/1WWXbwa
Aldeburgh Music @aldeburghmusic .@BBCSuffolk big conversation this morning is: what’s the right age to start taking children to classical concerts? What do you think?
Sergei Dogadin
Classical Music Magazine