3rd of August: bassoon part as the “endangered species” instruments, work of the artistic director Tom Morris, Johannes Zeinler winner of the St. Albans International Organ Competition and Roy Haynes “greatest living jazz drummer”
Monday 3rd August '15
Classical News In today's news the Guardian reports on how the bassoon is being considered as an "engandered species". The Occupy the Pianos Festival opens at St John’s Smith Square and artistic director Tom Morris explains …
ReadA HEARTFELT welcome to the Sacconi Quartet
Wednesday 22nd April '15
WildKat PR is extremely excited to be working with the Sacconi Quartet, a string quartet who are consistently recognised for communicating with a fresh and imaginative approach. The quartet aims to create truly immersive chamber …
Read2nd February: Conductor Israel Yinon dies after collapsing onstage, Tom Morris on making classical music more saleable and pianist Aldo Ciccolini has died.
Monday 2nd February '15
Classical News Guardian The crisis at the Coliseum is just part of our national opera’s malaise Once the ENO stood for something. Now the artform no longer feels as if it speaks to its audience Independent Conductor Israel Yinon dies …
Read11th December: ENO Arts Council Cuts: 10 of the strangest Messiahs: Patrick Lemanski to move to Warner Classics
Thursday 11th December '14
Classical News WildKat PR The Berkeley Ensemble’s New Cobbett Prize for Composition 2014 has a winner! The Berkeley Ensemble and the panel of judges for the New Cobbett Prize for Composition are delighted to announce Samuel Wesley Lewis’s Sequenza …
Read31st July: New York’s Metropolitan Opera threatens to lock out its musicians on Friday, the Sacconi Quartet on why Beethoven in life-changing and Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular to come to the UK
Thursday 31st July '14
Classical News The Guardian New York's Metropolitan Opera labour dispute: a symptom of a company in crisis The largest performing arts organization in the US is threatening to lock out its musicians on Friday, the latest setback for …
Read29th July: Max Hole confirms third Bristol Proms for 2015, Gabriel Prokofiev launches new violin concerto at Proms and Oxford students release acapella version of Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie
Tuesday 29th July '14
Classical News Classic FM Max Hole confirms third Bristol Proms for 2015 The Bristol Proms will return to the Bristol Old Vic for a third year running in 2015, Universal boss Max Hole has confirmed. BBC News Gabriel Prokofiev launches …
Read28th July: Bayreuth’s blunders, Carlo Bergonzi passed away at 90, The Proms pairs up with CBeebies
Monday 28th July '14
Classical News The Telegraph Jazz is not just for us old swingers Sebastian Coe, vice-president of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, writes about the emerging young jazz scene. Gramophone The great Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi has died On the 26th July …
Read4th April: Class and classical music, the Piano Machine of Dreams, and the world of a violin maker
Friday 4th April '14
The Guardian Class, race and classical music Western classical music – performers and audiences alike – is still an almost exclusively white concern. What can be done? Piano: Machine of Dreams Exhibition - in pictures Part of this year’s …
Read#BristolProms with Daniel Hope and Guy Johnston
Wednesday 10th July '13
A little way down the road from all the excitement of the world's greatest classical music festival, Bristol Old Vic will be hosting their own version of The Proms. Inspired by the hugely popular promenade …
Read19th June: Myleene Klass continues BRIT run while Einaudi set to play iTunes Festival
Wednesday 19th June '13
Classic FM Myleene Klass to present Classic BRIT Awards 2013 The multi-talented Classic FM presenter will be taking to the stage for her sixth consecutive Classic BRITs ceremony. Gramophone Bristol Old Vic launches Proms for a modern age Daniel Hope, …
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