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2023-09-02 08:47:00
Wagner: Tannhäuser - Le Gateau Chocolat - Bayreuth Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Welcome to our newsletter August on Planet Hugill, a month which saw the start of the BBC Proms, and the end of the Opera Holland Park season. Our correspondent Tony was in Bayreuth whilst we caught up with IF Opera in Bradford on Avon, and the London Song Festival included a remarkable Granville Bantok premiere. Interviews include Catherine Larsen-Maguire the new music director of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, Cameron Menzies, the artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera and John Wilkie who directed Giordano's Fedora for IF Opera.Read more in our newsletter, August on Planet Hugill, via Mad Mimi. If you don't already subscribe then sign up, ici
All the conducting master class
2023-02-26 03:48:20
05 – 13 Jul, 2023 Artistic director: Maestro Steven SloaneAssociate Directors: Maestri Catherine Larsen-Maguire & Eitan Globerson With the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Conductors of all ages and nationalities are encouraged to applyA maximum of 10 active participants will be acceptedNo limit for auditors**Possible engagements with […]
2022-04-22 13:11:49
Barrowland Ballroom, GlasgowMore than 50 virtuoso string players from across Europe played works from the very old to the brand new in an evening with plenty to admire but which fell short of its bold concept Two years after it was derailed by the pandemic, the Bridge festival, a pan-European celebration of music for strings, has come to Glasgow this weekend. This opening concert was a collaboration of the four participating ensembles: Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg), PLMF Music Trust (Estonia), Trondheim Soloists (Norway) and the Scottish Ensemble, under the direction of conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguire. Described as a conversation, a survey of the landscape of European music and a discussion between its heritage and contemporary composition, the concert spanned 900 years of repertoire and included two world premieres. Though the concept was bold, it felt like something of a lost opportunity; the potential of having 50 virtuoso string players together only realised […]
2022-04-05 09:19:23
Back on the road: Scottish Chamber Orchestra's Summer tour visiting 30 towns and cities across Scotland
After a two-year break, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) is going back on tour round Scotland, visiting 30 towns and cities between 9 June and 14 September 2022, presenting a mixture of orchestral concerts, chamber concerts, family events, education and community projects. The tour opens in Inverness (9/6/2022) and Drumnadrochit (10/6/2022) when the orchestra's principal flautist, André Cebrián directs his chamber version of Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 alongside music by Lutoslawski and Ligeti, Then other events include Greg Batsleer and the SCO Chorus in six centuries of choral music culminating in a new work by Anna Clyne (SCO Associate Composer), the SCO leader, Stephanie Gonley, directing a programme of Elgar, Schubert, and American composers Arthur Foote (1853-1937) and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004), and the SCO Wind Soloists in a wide ranging programme. The orchestra's former principal bassoon, Peter Whelan returns to conduct Haydn, CPE Bach and Beethoven, whilst current principal conductor […]
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