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2024-02-18 19:09:00
[…] music director.Minnesota Opera: Michael Christie has left. MO has not named a new music director. Marin Symphony, at the end of 2022-23.Vienna Staatsoper, when Philippe Jordan leaves at the end of 2025.Conductors looking for jobs (that is, as of the near future, or now, they do not have a posting). The big mystery, to me, is why an orchestra hasn't snapped up Susanna Mälkki. Slightly lesser mystery: Henrik Nanasi, whose superb Cosi fan tutte is still lingering in my ears.Tito Muñoz Andrey BoreykoOsmo VänskäSusanna Mälkki, who left the Helsinki Philharmonic at the end of 2022-23.MGT (apparently does not want a full-time job, as of early 2022)Miguel Harth-Bedoya (seems settled in at Baylor)Lionel BringuierSian EdwardsIngo MetzmacherJac van SteenMark WigglesworthPeter OundjianIlan VolkovAleksandr MarkovicLothar KoenigsHenrik NanasiPhilippe Jordan, eventuallyFranz Welser-Möst, eventuallyAnd closed:Update and correction: San Francisco Chamber Orchestra was unable to hire Cosette Justo Valdés. Instead, Jory Fankuchen, a violinist in the orchestra, has been named Principal Conductor and will lead this season's […]
2024-01-26 03:58:00
[…] music director.Minnesota Opera: Michael Christie has left. MO has not named a new music director. Marin Symphony, at the end of 2022-23.Vienna Staatsoper, when Philippe Jordan leaves at the end of 2025.Conductors looking for jobs (that is, as of the near future, or now, they do not have a posting). The big mystery, to me, is why an orchestra hasn't snapped up Susanna Mälkki. Slightly lesser mystery: Henrik Nanasi, whose superb Cosi fan tutte is still lingering in my ears.Tito Muñoz Andrey BoreykoOsmo VänskäSusanna Mälkki, who left the Helsinki Philharmonic at the end of 2022-23.MGT (apparently does not want a full-time job, as of early 2022)Miguel Harth-Bedoya (seems settled in at Baylor)Lionel BringuierSian EdwardsIngo MetzmacherJac van SteenMark WigglesworthPeter OundjianIlan VolkovAleksandr MarkovicLothar KoenigsHenrik NanasiPhilippe Jordan, eventuallyFranz Welser-Möst, eventuallyAnd closed:Update and correction: San Francisco Chamber Orchestra was unable to hire Cosette Justo Valdés. Instead, Jory Fankuchen, a violinist in the orchestra, has been named Principal Conductor and will lead this season's […]
2024-01-23 06:06:00
Some new reports:Franz Welser-Möst leaves the Cleveland Orchestra at the end of his current contract, which concludes in June, 2027. Oussama Zahr's review of their NYC concerts is....interesting.Krzysztof Urbański becomes artistic director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, succeeding Andrei Boreyko, in mid-2025.Tito Muñoz leaves the Phoenix Symphony at the end of this season.Open positions:Phoenix SymphonyCleveland Orchestra, as of June, 2027.Paris Opera is currently without a music director.Nashville Symphony, when Giancarlo Guerrero leaves.Deutsche Oper Berlin, when Donald Runnicles leaves.Hallé Orchestra, when Mark Elder leaves.Rottedam Philharmonic, when Lahav Shani leaves.Los Angeles Philharmonic, as of 2026-27, when Gustavo Dudamel leaves for NY.Indianapolis Symphony, where Jun Märkel is artistic advisor.Sarasota Orchestra, following the death of Bramwell Tovey.Seattle Symphony, following Thomas Dausgaard's abrupt departure in January, 2022.Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where Riccardo Muti left at the end of 2022-23.Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra: open in 2024 when Louis Langree steps down.Hong Kong Philharmonic, when Jaap van Zweden leaves in 2024.Oakland Symphony, […]
2023-11-25 09:22:00
Dependent Arising: American violinist Rachel Barton Pine on combining classical and Heavy Metal on her latest concerto album
Rachel Barton Pine (Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco)American violinist Rachel Barton Pine's most recent disc, on the Cedille Records label, Dependent Arising, pairs Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 with a new concerto, Dependent Arising, written especially for Rachel, by Earl Maneein, performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Tito Muñoz. The pairing very much encapsulates Rachel's freewheeling and eclectic approach to violin playing. In parallel to her career as a classical violin virtuoso she spent some years, from 2009 to 2014, playing electric violin in the Doom/Thrash Metal band Earthen Grave and has enthusiastically embraced a variety of styles and genres. With Dependent Arising she really leans into her enduring love of Heavy Metal. Earl Maneein is a trained classical violinist but also played electric violin in the Metalcore band, Resolution15, and his music embraces both camps.There are only around half a dozen players of the electric […]
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