1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (345+ words) Harry Sanders, who died this week, aged 59, was a chronicler of his city, Calgary, capital of Canada’s oil industry. It’s a town of 1.3 million souls with a resident philharmonic orchestra. Musicians used to get their instruments maintained at W A…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (67+ words) As a mark of its alignment with Beijing, the Hong Kong Philharmonic is putting on a concert celebrating China’s ambition to connect three continents through a network of ports and highways. Here’s the press release: From the Lebrecht Album of…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (124+ words) A French orchestra made its debut last night in the Palais Garnier. Formed by musicians of the Paris National Opera, it follows the game plan of the Vienna Philharmonic, the La Scala Orchestra and the MET in having an independent…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (42+ words) Radovan Vlatković is professor of horn at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Conductor Robert Franz, who died a year ago… Congratulations to Joana Mallwitz on the birth of… The shy and retiring chief conductor of the… The musicians have voted unanimously to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (86+ words) Carriage House Violins are putting on a chamber series with the cream of America’s string players: Paul Watkins (Emerson Quartet) Amit Peled Astrid Schween (Juilliard Quartet) top violinists: Stefan Jackiw Nikki and Timothy Chooi Ani Kavafian Philip Setzer (Emerson Quartet)…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (282+ words) This is a story of cultural fusion. The Munich Oktoberfest is an excuse to drink beer in leather pants. It plans to raise the tone this year by engaging a string quartet to play in the clinking background. The Netflix…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (96+ words) The violinist Alexander Steinberger is retiring as deputy chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic after more than 30 years on the orchestra’s governing committee, half of them as its second in command. Vienna born, Steinberger joined the orchestra of the state opera…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (63+ words) Manhattan School of Music has appointed a new Chair of the Orchestral Performance Program. He is Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Principal Trumpet David Krauss. His two predecessors were concertmasters of the Met. From Det Kongelige Kapel in Copenhagen: The Royal… The…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (113+ words) The Korean violinist Sueye Park (pictured) has quit the Simply Quartet, which she joined just seven months ago. The remaining players – Antonia Rankersberger (violin, Austrian), Xiang Lyu (viola, China) and Ivan Valentin Hollup Roald (cello, Norway) – have called off performances…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (165+ words) Burgh House in Hampstead has oragnised a music resideency in a three-year partnership with The Cosman Keller Art & Music Trust. Hans and Milein were fixtures on the London chamber music scene and it’s a thrill to have them back. The…...