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Dinis Sousa Named Music Director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia Through 2030
Following two successful terms as Principal Conductor, Dinis Sousa has been awarded a contract extension by the Royal Northern Sinfonia and an enhanced role as Music Director which will see him continue his acclaimed leadership of the orchestra through 2030. Since...
Esa-Pekka Salonen Named Music Director for the 80th Festival: June 11-14, 2026
Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to the Ojai Music Festival to serve as Music Director for the 80th Festival, June 11 to 14, 2026. Now in its 79th year, the Ojai Music Festival is a creative laboratory for thought-provoking musical experiences, bringing together innovative...
Esa-Pekka Salonen Wins Best Opera GRAMMY® Award for Saariaho: Adriana Mater
Esa-Pekka Salonen won the Best Opera GRAMMY® Award for Saariaho: Adriana Mater (Deutsche Grammophon). The 67th GRAMMY® Awards were announced live on 2 February at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena. Salonen conducted the world premiere recording of Saariaho’s second opera...
Esa-Pekka Salonen joins Enticott Music Management
Enticott Music Management (EMM) announces that Esa-Pekka Salonen will join their roster for worldwide management, effective immediately. “Kathryn Enticott represents my friends and colleagues in the field with strength and grace,” said Salonen. "I have long admired...
MAGNIFICENT REVIEWS FOLLOWING DINIS SOUSA’S BEETHOVEN CYCLE WITH THE ORCHESTRE RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE ET ROMANTIQUE
Over the past weeks, Dinis Sousa conducted the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in five concerts at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, and four concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris. The programme featured the complete Beethoven symphonies, as well as...
SONY CLASSICAL SIGNS JENEBA KANNEH-MASON FOR FIRST RECITAL ALBUM, RELEASING IN 2025
Pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason has signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. Her first recital album with the label will be recorded this year for release in sprint 2025. The 22-year-old British pianist has already impressed critics with her “poetry and...
Franz Welser-Möst Awarded Honorary Membership by the Vienna Philharmonic
The Vienna Philharmonic is pleased to announce that it has awarded honorary membership to Franz Welser-Möst. Daniel Froschauer, Chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic, said, "The artistic collaboration with Franz Welser-Möst began in 1998. Since then, he has led the...
Semyon Bychkov completes his 10-year tenure as Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic at the end of 2027-28 season
Statement of the CEO of the Czech Philharmonic David Mareček: “I was much saddened to hear of Semyon’s decision not to renew his contract with the Czech Philharmonic at the end of 2027/28 season. While I totally respect the rationale, I know I speak for the whole...
Kirill Gerstein releases Music in Time of War: Debussy / Komitas
Music in Time of War, the new double-album from pianist Kirill Gerstein, places the music of Komitas, pioneer of ethnomusicology and founder of the Armenian national school of music, alongside that of Claude Debussy, a seminal composer in the late 19th and early 20th...
Dinis Sousa Will Make His Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Debut with Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem
Dinis Sousa will conduct the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Monteverdi Choir in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem on 29 February and 1 and 3 March 2024. They are joined by soloists soprano Lenneke Ruiten and baritone Christian Gerhaher. Brahms’s Requiem will be...
Isata Kanneh-Mason Stars in Sheila Heyman’s ‘FANNY: THE OTHER MENDELSSOHN’
Take a celebrated musical genius, sibling rivalry, an unknown manuscript, some very persistent research and one sensational revelation, and what have you got? FANNY: THE OTHER MENDELSSOHN – the documentary from BAFTA-winning director Sheila Hayman that features global...
A Message from Franz Welser-Möst
September 8, 2023 Franz Welser-Möst recently had a cancerous tumor removed and will need to undergo treatment between his conducting engagements for the next twelve to sixteen months. His first period of treatment will begin at the end of October. Regrettably,...
MILOŠ Launches A New Era With New Album “Baroque” On Sony Classical
MILOŠ – the superstar musician who has led today’s classical guitar revival, begins a new era in his exceptional career with a debut album for Sony Classical. Titled simply Baroque, the album presents MILOŠ’ carefully curated selection of baroque works especially...
EMM Artists Nominated for 2023 Opus Klassik Awards
EMM is excited to announce the nominations that our Artists have received for this year’s Opus Klassik Awards. The winners will be announced in October 2023. For more information, please visit www.opusklassik.de. Leif Ove Andsnes Nominated for: Mozart Momentum...
Kirill Gerstein Announces Release of Rachmaninoff 150
https://platoon.lnk.to/rachpianocto Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings, Kirill Gerstein, and Platoon announce the release of Rachmaninoff 150, an album that traces the evolution of Sergei Rachmaninoff's creative vision over the course of his lifetime. The album...
Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic Release Mahler’s Symphony No. 2
After critically-acclaimed recordings of Mahler’s Fourth and Fifth Symphony, Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic continue their Pentatone Mahler cycle with a rendition of the composer’s Second, nicknamed The Resurrection. Mahler’s Second Symphony is a deeply...
Faber Music Publishes Kirill Gerstein’s Transcription of Rachmaninoff’s ‘In the Silence of the Secret Night’
Faber Music have published a new transcription of Rachmaninoff’s song In the Silence of the Secret Night from pianist Kirill Gerstein. The three-minute piece is taken from the composer’s song cycle Six Romances, Op. 4, setting a poem by Afanasy Fet describing a fitful...
Isata Kanneh-Mason Draws On Her Childhood In Third Album ‘Childhood Tales’
Isata Kanneh-Mason is delighted to announce that her third album ‘Childhood Tales’ will be released worldwide on 26 May 2023. Continuing her developing legacy with Decca Classics that began in 2019, the album uses Dolby Atmos Technology to capture Isata’s signature...
