Jonathan Dove:Itch- Adam Temple Smith as Itch and Victoria Simmonds as Watkins - Opera Holland Park 2023 (Photo: Craig Fuller) Celebrating the best new classical music and sound art, this year'sIvors Classical
Founded by Martin T:son Engstroem in 1994, the Verbier Festival brings together the world’s greatest musicians in the heart of the Swiss Alps and sets the gold standard of exceptional concerts with more than 300 chamber and orchestral musicians, star performers and conductors, and emerging soloi...
At the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and Academy in the Swiss Alps, artistic director Christoph Müller observes a number of trends shaping the future of classical music festivals. One is that famous musicians are taking over artistic direction; in fact, the celebrated violinist Daniel Hope will be assum...
Classical music news. Concours de Genève — The Swiss organisation announces the candidates for its 2025/26 conducting competition Ensemble. A Near-perfect Triptych — Andreas Rey experiences Puccini's 'Il trittico' at the Opéra Bastille in Paris ...
“Time/Eternity,” the program features two contemporary works modeled on church music dating back to at least the Renaissance, thus representing both eternity and modern time in each work. The first of these is the Mass for Double Chorus by Swiss composer Frank Martin. Written in 1922 and ...
Brett Dean, in his acceptance speech for the Best Orchestral Composition award, commented on the refreshing lack of dogma to the styles of music on offer. The two very different figures of Matthew Herbert and Tansy Davies were both celebrated, and at the end of the evening the truly remarkabl...
b. 1969 Austrian Studied at the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium (piano, composition, conducting) Composition studies in Graz with Beat Furrer Electroacoustic music at Studio UPIC/Paris and at the Swiss Centre for Computer Music/Zurich Peter Parker ...
The bursting schedules of concerts at the Wigmore Hall, the Barbican Centre and South Bank Centre, and the strength of music in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Cardiff, among other cities, show a depth and internationalism reflecting the development of the British classical tradition as European,...
His interest in the Swiss psychologist even extended to his studying the writings of Mircea Eliade, particularly his Shamanism, but eventually Barber found both thinkers "too complicated for his uneducated soul." Medea concerns aspects of the problem that always was a compelling interest of Barber ...
Classical music news. Obituary - Luciano Iorio (1937-2024) Ensemble. A Very Satisfying Evening - Keith Bramich enjoys a charity concert in London Spotlight. Consistently Transparent - Gerald Fenech listens to organ concertos by Arne. '... a vibrant energy ...' Classical music news. Obituary -...