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 Magazine Abigail Pogson appointed to manage Sage Gateshead Spitalfields Music chief executive Abigail Pogson is to become managing director of Sage Gateshead in May, taking over from Anthony Sargent. The Guardian WNO 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 Telegraph Arvo 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 composer Classic FM André 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 Telegraph Watch: the world's fastest-playing pianist Ukrainian Lubomyr Melnyk claims that he plays 19.5 piano notes on each hand every second Classic FM How I wrote… Pas de Deux – James Horner The 'Titanic' takes us through his first …
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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 Online John Williams exhibition to open in Hollywood John Williams is to be the subject of a new exhibition at the Hollywood Museum in Los Angeles, beginning this weekend Debussy Google Doodle boosts music sales After Google …
Read24th April: Britten Sinfonia, Emmanuel Joel-Hornak and Gareth Malone
Wednesday 24th April '13
Gramophone Britten Sinfonia launches Musically Gifted The 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 Magazine Emmanuel Joel-Hornak announced as Scottish Opera chief Scottish …
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