Ice instruments melt musical boundaries in Italian Alps - Icy orchestra

When Tim Linhart started making instruments from ice they were more likely to explode with a bang than produce music, but things have come a long way since then.

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ACO Instrument Fund Acquire 430-Year Old Amati Violin

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) Instrument Fund today announced the acquisition of its fourth 'Golden Age' string instrument: a

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Ice orchestra serenades skiers in frozen Italian Alps igloo - Channel 24

High in the Italian Dolomites, musicians in an igloo concert hall perform on instruments sculpted out of ice... in minus 12 degrees.

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Access to Music Lessons Dying out for Poorer Families

The research from the Musicians’ Union (MU) reveals families with a total household income of less than £28k are half as likely to have a child learning an instrument as more affluent peers with a family income of £48k or more.

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SPO appoints new associate conductor

The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra announced Wednesday that it has appointed Wilson Ng from Hong Kong as its new associate conductor.

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Huawei completes Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony using AI

The beleaguered telecommunications company has written the final two movements of the composer’s Eighth using a Mate 20 Pro smartphone.

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Million pounds donation to Opera North project in Leeds as campaign for public support is launched.

A gift of £1 million has been made towards Opera North's new world-class facility in Leeds, as the company launches a public fundraising campaign

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English National Opera announces strategy for nurturing BAME talent and encouraging a more inclusive opera industry

ENO is to recruit four new choristers from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background in a concerted effort to ensure our Chorus more fairly reflects our society.

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The difficulties of being a female orchestra conductor

A look at what it takes to become an orchestra conductor in the very male dominated field of music.

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra's outgoing music director Lan Shui named conductor laureate

Chinese-American conductor Lan Shui has laid down his baton as music director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra

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North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra holds its first ever sensory-friendly concert

The North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra held a very special concert for some very special people this weekend.

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Young people are turning to classical music to escape ‘noise of modern life’

Backers of new radio station say research shows a growing audience for the classics among under-35s

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BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

We are thrilled to announce that Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska @DaliaStasevska is joining our team as Principal Guest Conductor Designate

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News Nicola Benedetti launches video series and Benedetti Foundation

‘I have had the huge fortune in my life of being exposed to some of the world’s greatest violin and music teachers, and I want to make as much of the information available to as many people as possible’

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Ulster Orchestra delighted to announce the appointment of Daniele Rustioni as Chief Conductor

succeeding @rafaelpayare from September 2019.

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ABO/Classical Music Awards recognise industry figures

The annual ABO/Classical Music Awards have once again honoured excellence in the fields of orchestral, concert hall and artist management. They were ...

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Harry Christophers will pass the baton at Handel and Haydn Society -

Harry Christophers, artistic director of the Handel and Haydn Society, plans to step down at the end of the 2020-21 season.

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Ed Sheeran teams up with Lowden Guitars

The world famous singer-songwriter has created a new range of acoustic guitars with Lowden Guitars in Downpatrick.

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Corrie star wins legal battle against NI Opera with ‘UK-wide ramifications for performers’ pay

Northern Ireland Opera has lost a tribunal brought against it by actors including Coronation Street’s Kerri Quinn, which revolved around performers’ rights to holiday pay.

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ABO/Rhinegold Awards 2019 at Titanic Belfast

Congratulations! Suzanne Rolt, Cathy Graham, Angela Sulivan and David Wilson,

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Ireland’s RTÉ National Symphony Announces New Principal Conductor

The RTÉ National Symphony has announced the appointment of Spanish conductor Jaime Martín as its new Principal Conductor.

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Simon Halsey on how choirs bring people together

In Sydney to work with Gondwana and the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, the renowned British choral conductor talks about the power of choral singing and why for the UK, Brexit is the biggest single disaster of his lifetime.

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Quiet please: Italian town takes vow of silence as violins recorded

A town in northern Italy that makes the world's finest violins has taken a collective vow of silence so that the mellifluous sounds of the instruments can be recorded

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Opera competition brings in blind auditions to tackle unconscious bias - Classic FM

Opera competition brings in blind auditions to tackle unconscious bias  Classic FMAn opera competition has just launched – and it uses blind auditions, in the hope of bringing more diversity to the industry.

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This is what happened after vandals damaged a memorial to ‘Cheltenham’s most famous son’

Enthusiasts have replaced spectacles that were wrenched off the Gustav Holst sculpture in Imperial Gardens.

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How the Seattle Opera got involved with the government shutdown

The Seattle Opera wanted to help federal workers dealing with the partial government shutdown and missed paychecks.

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UK Government backs young musicians

Expert panel to devise model music curriculum to help schools deliver world-class teaching and £1.3million funding boost for successful music education hubs

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Take your seats for a fight at the opera

Nothing enhances our lives quite like a good spat between cultural purists and the supposed riff-raff.

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Venezuelan migrant musicians strike a chord in Buenos Aires

South America is racked by the biggest migration crisis in its history as millions flee Venezuela.

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Charlottesville Opera names O'Dell as general director

The St. Louis native has years of experience as a singer and as an arts administrator.

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Chicago Opera Theater's Board Of Directors Announces Ashley Magnus New General Director

Chicago Opera Theater's (COT) Board of Directors today announces the promotion of Ashley Magnus

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Italian luthiers design double bass that can travel as carry-on luggage

A team of Italian luthiers in Parma is offering a solution for bass players, however, with a collapsible double bass that can travel as hand luggage.

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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians' contract expires amid debate on major cuts

A contract between management and musicians expired Tuesday night as they continue to debate whether shrinking the BSO's season from 52 weeks to 40 ...

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How do you start a symphony orchestra in India?

Kazakh violinist Marat Bisengaliev, the Symphony Orchestra of India’s co-founder and music director, describes how Bollywood strings adapted to classical music

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West Side Story: High school student cast as Maria in Spielberg remake

There has been criticism of the 1961 film for casting non-Hispanic actors, such as Natalie Wood

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The San Diego Symphony has joined the California orchestra vanguard

With electrifying Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare now as music director, a riveting performance by baritone Davóne Tines and an urgent sense of social ...

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LOOKING BACK: Youth orchestra prepares for twin town tour in 1986

Do you recognise anyone?

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Youth orchestra launched in city

The Saigon Philharmonic Youth Orchestra – SPYO has been established for young artists aged between 18 and 25, aiming at reaching a new audience.

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The Met Opera Has a Gay Conductor. Yes, That Matters.

Openly gay performing arts leaders are still rare. So it was a breath of fresh air to chat about coming out and Celine Dion with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and his partner.

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Carlos Acosta named director of Birmingham Royal Ballet

World-renowned ballet dancer Carlos Acosta has been appointed as the new director of Birmingham Royal Ballet.

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Pagan millones a solistas y directores huéspedes de la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional

El máximo conjunto musical del país, que dirige Carlos Miguel Prieto, ofreció jugosos contratos a algunos de sus ejecutantes invitados en 2015 y 2016

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A world-famous conductor performed in a D.C. public school. The result? Mixed marks.

World-famous conductor Gianandrea Noseda is on the podium in a high school auditorium before a couple hundred restless teenagers. It’s a tough crowd.

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Saxophonist wanted to encourage rare flightless birds to mate

New Zealand’s Department of Conservation is looking for a musician to get the critically endangered kākāpō in the mood.

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How to ensure the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra stays a ‘major-league team’

Reductions to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will not help it,

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Paris Opera drops star dancer after homophobic rant

The Paris Opera Ballet has dropped controversial Ukrainian-born dance star Sergei Polunin from a production of "Swan Lake" after he made a homophobic and sexist rant on social media.

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Betrunkener wirft Musikinstrumente aus Zug

Nach der Kontrolle durch einen Zugbegleiter hat ein Mann im Regionalexpress von Büchen nach Hamburg Gegenstände aus dem Zug geworfen.

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Nie wieder Elbphilharmonie? Jonas Kaufmann kritisiert Klang

Beim Konzert verließen mehrfach Menschen den Großen Saal, dazu kamen Rufe wie "Hier hört man auch nichts!". Nun spricht der Tenor.

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Critics who demand opera sung in original language want to ‘keep the riff-raff away', director suggests

It is one of the key and most controversial cornerstones of English National Opera, dividing performers, critics and audience members alike over its policy to sing ...

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Village churchgoers lose savings over failed musical

Members of a village church lost hundreds of thousands of pounds after the collapse of a religious musical that was supposed to tour arena venues.

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Classical music strikes a chord with listeners as sales soar by 10%

Sales of classical CDs and streaming of the music rose by more than 10% last year compared with the previous year, data reveals.

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Hollywood composer Patrick Doyle urges Scots pupils to seek film work

A leading Hollywood composer wants to tour schools around his native Scotland to urge pupils to pursue careers in the film industry.

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Why performance pressures put a strain on musicians’ mental health

The music industry is neglecting the very stars it should be nurturing to keep afloat.

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Tyrone composer Sandy Faris makes the history books

A County Tyrone man, whose name most people will not recognise, has quite literally made the history books. Sandy Faris was born in Caledon in 1921 but ...

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'I get asked questions my male colleagues would never get asked': conductor Alondra de la Parra on her career

A new documentary on DW follows the charismatic young Mexican maestra over 14 month as she conducts on two continents.

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Brodsky Quartet acquires new violinist

Brodsky Quartet acquires new violinist | News  The StradGina McCormack joins the ensemble in May 2019.

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Female Composers Are Trying to Break Film’s Sound Barrier

They're rarely hired to score movies, even female superhero films like “Wonder Women 1984.” The academy and women in the field are trying to change that.

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Stefan Herheim interview: 'Opera is not about giving people a good time' (pay wall)

'I am an artist first, but also Catholic and homosexual. That should not be left out.”

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Free of charge: Kirill Petrenko conducts the German National Youth Orchestra

Wed, 09 Jan 2019, 19:00

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New Orleans Opera director takes Opera Naples post

Timothy Todd Simmons, executive director for New Orleans Opera, has taken that position for Opera Naples, going from one of the country's oldest to one of its ...

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Opera needs to change. Prototype festival shows one new path.

We've had quartets for helicopters, operas on the freeway, performance art based on various forms of self-immolation.

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A 'Brit of good news' for opera director as he receives Polish citizenship for outstanding work promoting Polish culture

Leading Brit opera director David Pountney has been awarded Polish citizenship in honour of his work with Polish music.

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UK orchestras need government assurances over Brexit, MPs warn

British orchestras need assurances from government they can easily access the European market – their most important overseas territory – following Brexit, ...

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Musician sets world record for highest ever classical musical concert after playing grand piano on Himalayan mountains

A musician set the world record for the highest ever classical music concert after she played a grand piano up a 5000m Himalayan mountain pass.

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Secret Gaelic roots of Beethoven songs (pay wall)

The Gaelic roots of Beethoven’s Scottish lieder were deliberately concealed by the composer’s Edinburgh publisher because traditional Highland culture did not fit the image of a united Britain, it has been claimed.

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Calgary nurse saves musician's life at New Year's Eve concert

There was no way Rhonda Mikulak would know she would end up possibly helping save a life just hours before ringing in the New Year.

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Wayne D. Wisbaum, 83, attorney who raised millions to save Kleinhans Music Hall

Visitors who enjoy the glorious Kleinhans Music Hall may not realize that the landmark was badly in need of $12 million

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Calgary Philharmonic trumpet player returns from open heart surgery to perform again

Adam Zinatelli became a principal performer with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in his twenties.

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New Galway orchestra to play two shows in 2019

THE CONTEMPO Quartet, and Paul Ezergailis, co-principal of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, part of a new orchestra which was launched recently in Galway ...

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Times Letters: Benefit of classical music education at school

Times Letters: Benefit of classical music education at school  Sir, Julian Lloyd Webber

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Cleveland Orchestra announces new three-year trade agreement

Late last month, the Cleveland Orchestra announced the ratification of a new three-year trade agreement, effectively immediately

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For One Violinist, Elevating Music By Black Composers Is A 20-Year Mission - WESM

Growing up in Chicago, Rachel Barton Pine took it for granted that there was a great body of classical music by black composers.

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