Friday, 3 March 2017

Yves Abel has extended his contract as Chief Conductor of Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie until 2020

Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 2005 – 2011, Yves Abel combines NWD’s busy concert commitment with an international opera career (forthcoming projects include new productions of Midsummer Night’s Dream for Hamburg Opera, L’elisir d’amore for Canadian Opera)

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Musicians join orchestra rebirth

After a period of “dormancy”, the Bermuda Philharmonic Society is set to return to the stage this weekend in an effort to entertain and promote the arts. ...

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Ofsted: instruments 'dumped from school music lessons'

Children are being prevented from playing instruments in school music lessons as classes are increasingly turned over to tedious writing exercises, according to Ofsted.

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Thursday, 2 March 2017

Classical concerts are officially more popular than football matches in Germany

There's been a serious increase in concert attendance in the last year - seemingly at the expense of the Bundesliga.

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Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Hand-written Chopin score bought by Warsaw museum

The partial score for the G-minor op. 23 piece is the only score for a Chopin ballade in Poland.

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‘The world is really scary at the moment, but music keeps us together,’ says legendary soprano Angela Gheorghiu

In 2017 Angela Gheorghiu is celebrating 25 years with the Royal Opera House and 150 performances on its stage.

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St Paul’s appoints first full-time female chorister in 1,000-year history

Carris Jones, 35, was unanimously selected to join the choir’s alto section by a panel including the cathedral’s director of music, organist and team of clergymen after several rounds of auditions.

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