4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (330+ words) Robert Ames was joint founder of the London Contemporary Orchestra in 2006. Today he publicly resigned from the LCO in a Guardian polemic, arguing that there’s no longer a route into UK orchestras for children from poorer backgrounds. Here’s the nub…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (77+ words) The Detroit Symphny Orchestra has eliminated three senior staff positions. They are: Director of Culture & Inclusion Director of Safety & Security and Manager of Volunteer & Patron Experiences. All three are public facing roles. The DSO has registered deficits in three of…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (79+ words) The 37th Praemium Imperiale is awarded today to the actor Cate Blanchett (Australia), the painter Jenny Holzer (USA), the sculptor Andy Goldsworthy (UK), the architect Daniel Libeskind (USA) and the orchestral conductor Herbert Blomstedt (Sweden). Each prize is worth 15 million yen…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (70+ words) The 6th Evgeny Svetlanov Concuting Competition was won last night in Birmingham by Michal Oren. Runner up was another Israeli, Mikhail Mering. Oren, 28, from Tel Aviv, is the newly installed assistant conductor at the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. From the Lebrecht Album…...

1+ week, 41+ min ago   (100+ words) The Swedish founder of the Swiss Verbier Festival has been appointed to the post of senior international artistic advisor at Israel Opera. In other appointments Shirit Lee Weiss has been promoted from head of casting to Artistic Director of the…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (62+ words) The Putin-friendly Vadim Repin, cancelled for a second time by a US orchestra, has signed off on a statement that suggests his uncritical support has softened. Repin endorsed this statement: Conductor Robert Franz, who died a year ago… The orchestra…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (116+ words) Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw has chosen Bassem Akiki as its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor. Arriving in Poland from Beirut twenty years ago, Akiki graduated from the Cracow Music Academy and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (138+ words) The remarkable virtuoso Yuval Yaron took lessons with Jascha Heifetz and won the 1975 Sibelius competition in Helsinki. But he was never entirely comfortable in the public eye and preferred to spend two decades teaching at Bloomington, Indiana. In 2001, he took…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (169+ words) From a Washington dispatch by Elizabeth Williamson in today’s NY Times: … my colleague Maggie Haberman told me that he continues to spend the bulk of his working hours on changes to the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian, a new White…...