Women Conductors champion Alice Farnham returns to the Royal Opera House for the family Christmas show based on Philip Pullman's The Firework-Maker’s Daughter and her pioneering Women Conductors course
Pioneering conductor Alice Farnham, Founder of the Women Conductors @ Morley course to encourage young, aspiring girls to try conducting,returns to theRoyal Opera Houseto conduct the Christmas show based on Philip Pullman's The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, a chamber opera for all the family, opening on December 10. Early in the New Year, Farnham is back again at Covent Garden for the next instalment of her conducting course to champion girls and female students to explore conducting opera with Julia Jones and ballet with Andrea Quinn, both conductors highly regarded in their respective fields.
Read moreFabio Bonizzoni continues his Notes on Finance to enrich soul and society on 25 November in Milan following a new release of Handel’s Duetti e Terzetti italiani on Glossa with La Risonanza
Celebrated baroque conductor and harpsichordist Fabio Bonizzoni and his Italian ensemble La Risonanza follow their award-winning series of Handel’s Italian Cantatas with a second recording of the composer’s Duetti e Terzetti italiani on the Glossa Label featuring soprano Roberta Invernizzi, Silvia Frigato and Thomas Bauer. The new CD is released ahead of the second run of Note Etiche, a series of debates on finance and ethics combined with music, which Fabio Bonizzoni initiated last year at Milan’s Stock Exchange.
Read moreLondon Music Masters Award Holder Benjamin Beilman performs the world premiere of Edmund Finnis’ violin concerto Shades Lengthen with the London Contemporary Orchestra at St. John at Hackney Church on 10 December
London Music Masters and creative partner London Contemporary Orchestra present the world premiere of Edmund Finnis’ Shades Lengthen with young American violinist and LMM Award Holder Benjamin Beilman on 10 December at St. John at Hackney Church. As part of LMM’s series of three new commissions, Hugh Brunt and Robert Ames – co-Artistic Directors of the iconoclastic London Contemporary Orchestra - have devised a site-responsive programme with Finnis around his piece Shades Lengthen, echoing the original evensong liturgy starting with traditional chants, followed by works by John Cage, Arvo Pärt and Kaija Saariaho on a similar theme.
Read moreThe Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome appoints Yuri Temirkanov as Lifetime Honorary Conductor
The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia appoints esteemed Russian conductor Yuri Temirkanov as Lifetime Honorary Conductor. The only other lifetime appointment awarded by the Roman symphonic institution was to Leonard Bernstein as Honorary President from 1983 to 1990.
Read moreSpanish conductor Juanjo Mena returns to perform with the New York Philharmonic following a successful debut last season
Following a successful debut last year with the New York Philharmonic resulting in a standing ovation, BBC Philharmonic Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena makes an immediate return for a series of four concerts in the New Year, 27 to 30 January. Of his debut, the New York Times commented that Mena led the orchestra “with brisk efficiency and lightness of texture” and that “the orchestra obliged with bright playing and energy”. Following many notable appearances with all the leading American orchestras in recent years, the Spanish conductor received an instant re-invitation for the current season after just one rehearsal with the New York Philharmonic.
Read moreSoho’s PizzaExpress Jazz Club hosts the third annual Theatralia Jazz Festival curated by Filomena Campus
Filomena Campus’ annual Theatralia Jazz Festival (formerly My Jazz Islands) returns for the third year running, based at the PizzaExpress Jazz Club in Soho from 9 to 11 November with extra events at the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Bookshop in London from 4 November. Jazz vocalist and theatre director Filomena Campus, who has curated the festival since 2013, aims to bring Italy’s best jazz musicians together with the cream of the British jazz crop. The festival will star jazz musician Paolo Fresu, saxophonist Jean Toussaint, vocalist Cleveland Watkiss and a renewed collaboration with Italian author Stefano Benni.
Read moreCordelia Williams continues her year-long project Messiaen 2015 with an event in Kings Place
Young British pianist Cordelia Williams continues her acclaimed series Messiaen 2015: Between Heaven and the Clouds, taking her new multimedia exploration of Olivier Messiaen’s wartime masterpiece Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus to London’s Milton Court and Kings Place, as well as Winchester Cathedral and Wiltshire. Williams commissioned Costa award-winning British poet Michael Symmons Roberts to respond to Messiaen’s musical interpretation of the nativity story with 20 poems alongside paintings by British artist Sophie Hacker.
Read moreMulti-award-winning pianist Benjamin Grosvenor makes his recital début at Carnegie Hall on 15 October
Multi-award-winning pianist Benjamin Grosvenor makes his Carnegie Hall recital début at Zankel Hall, New York, with a programme of Mendelssohn, Bach, Franck, Ravel and Liszt on 15 October. This follows on from Grosvenor’s critically-acclaimed American tour in February which established him as one of the most talented young pianists of his generation. Grosvenor’s recital at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum resulted in The Boston Globe and The Boston Musical Intelligencer both calling him the “real deal”. Prior to his Carnegie Hall recital début, 23-year-old Grosvenor appears at the Last Night of the BBC Proms alongside opera stars Danielle de Niese and Jonas Kaufmann at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 12 September.
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