Composer Elżbieta Sikora will receive the Prize of the President of the French Republic for her entire body of work on March 21, 2024.
The 29th edition of the Béla Bartók International Choir Competition in Debrecen will be held between 1-4 August. Applications for the prestigious competition are invited until 15 April on the competition’s official website.
This March FOY highlights the importance of social media through its FOCUS on Social Media workshop.
The Capriccio label is releasing all versions of the symphonies on 18 albums. Pierre-Jean-Tribot made the following interview with the conductor.
French tenor Cyrille Dubois won at this year’s ICMA with his album ‘Jouissons de nos beaux ans’. Jury member Luc Boentges (Radio 100,7, Luxembourg) made the following interview with the singer.
In mid-February legendary Thomas Sanderling performed a Brahms concert. While in Budapest, I had the opportunity to interview him about his experiences in Hungary, his thoughts on Shostakovich, and his perspective on what it takes to be a good conductor.
On February 19th, György Kurtág’s 98th birthday, the Budapest Music Center offered a concert to celebrate the great master’s birthday.
Átlátszó Hang New Music Festival presented their 2024 marathon of concerts from January 6th through February 2nd in various venues in Buda and Pest.
“G for Gustav, F for Frankreich, and K for Karajan!” instructed maestro Alain Altinoglu as he conducted a ‘symphonic mob’ rehearsal in the middle of a lovely park in Bad Kissingen, a spa town in Bavaria.
“I have a memory from the time before I was born,” writes Swedish clarinetist Martin Fröst. That memory was filled with songs by Scarlatti and Purcell.
A curiously forgotten and fairly prolific Baroque composer, Johann David Heinichen, was a contemporary of Bach; and like him, arose from St. Thomas Church in Leipzig.
Violinist Antje Weithaas and pianist Dénes Várjon each ideally combine the highest degree of enthusiasm and technical refinement.
On January 27th, 2023, Sony releases the second album of the Italo-Ukrainian violinist Anastasiya Petryshak.
Levante/Power Alley by Lillah Halla (Brazil, France, Uruguay, 2023) is the winner of the main competition Mostra Concorso of the 42nd edition of Bergamo Film Meeting.
Two musicians from Valencia, Oboist Victoria Muñoz and pianist Rubén Talón, will play at the ICMA Award ceremony on 12 April at the Palau de la Musica.
In 2022, as Russia initiated a full-scale invasion on February 24th, Ukraine’s musicians united to safeguard their culture and democracy. They orchestrated numerous benefit concerts in Ukraine and worldwide, amplifying the voice of Ukraine.
After the first couple of months of russian aggression in Ukraine, people were trying to do the test events in the subway stations.
In Ukraine during the war, musical life changed dramatically. Music has become an important part of spiritual resistance to aggression.
The December of 2022 marked a significant milestone for Kyiv’s cultural scene – the five- year anniversary of the establishment of 32JazzClub, a unique haven for jazz enthusiasts and musicians alike.
From the 2024/25 season, young conductor Levente Török (31) will take over the artistic direction of the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra, Hungary.
The International Schimmel Piano Competition, organized by the Wilhelm Schimmel Pianofortefabrik GmbH in Germany was held the beginning of March.
Iván Fischer will be hosting the Arab-Jewish ensemble Shesh Besh, musicians from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, at the OMIKE event on 7 March, which was re-established last year.
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