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Soviet composer (1935-2021)
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2021-03-02 07:46:13
Applications are now open to become a 2021 City Music Foundation Artist
Applications are now open to become a 2021 City Music Foundation Artist. The scheme welcomes applications from classical, jazz, folk and world musicians, both soloists and ensembles, and there is no age limit. This will be the scheme's ninth intake, and the selected CMF Artists will begin a two year career development programme which covers artistic and project management, performance opportunities, mentoring and coaching, career development workshops, comissioning promotional tools, commissioning new music, and promotion as well as day-to-day support from the CMF team. Current and previous CMF artists include violinist Elina Buksha, violist Rosalind Ventris, pianists Iyad Sughayer and Samson Tsoy, the Ligeti Quartet, guitarist Andrey Lebedev, mezzo-sopranos Lotte Betts-Dean and Helen Charlston, jazz double-bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado and accordionist Bartosz Glowacki. The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 30 April 2021. Full details from the CMF website.
2021-01-31 14:45:52
Mental Health at Wigmore Hall, Holocaust Memorial from Opera Holland Park, Britten & Shostakovich from ETO
David Webb at Wigmore Hall This week features tenor David Webb and friends supporting mental health at Wigmore Hall, Nicky Spence and Opera Holland Park commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, Britten setting Russian and Shostakovich setting British poets from English Touring Opera, James Newby in Hamburg and more besides. During January, tenor David Webb intended to cycle from Cornwall to London, combining the 300-mile trip with three performances of Schubert's Winterreise (in Truro, Exeter and the Wigmore Hall), all in aid of mental health charities MIND and Music Minds Matter (Help Musicians UK). The current lockdown restrictions put paid to that but Webb, who has been open about his own struggles with mental health, was nothing undaunted and so during January he cycled 500 miles, in laps from his own home, and then on Friday 29 January Webb was joined by a group of friends for a […]
2021-01-15 09:53:22
City Music Foundation & Barts Heritage present concert series in Great Hall of St Bartholemew's Hospital
City Music Foundation’s Director Clare Taylor and Artist Manager Latana PhoungFrom Emile Holba's The Hidden City The City Music Foundation (CMF) has joined forces with Barts Heritage, an organisation dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the historic buildings at Barts Hospital so that for 2021 the lunchtime recitals from CMF artists will take place in the Great Hall of St Bartholemew's Hospital and be live streamed public and waiting areas in the hospital on the information screens, and available on patient held iPads which can be requested by in-patients. The importance of music and heritage in health and wellbeing is well known - and CMF and Barts Heritage will be collaborating to exploring this in more depth.The first recital takes place on Wednesday 27 January 2021 with 2018 CMF artist, cellist Ariana Kashefi and guitarist Andrey Lebedev, 2015 CMF Artist (details from CMF website) and then run […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2020-08-23 07:00:50
A Tory donor in charge of the Royal Opera House? That's not high culture, it's farce | Catherine Bennett
The fate of this revered institution lies in the hands of a Brexiter with a chequered past George Osborne v David Ross? The Lebedev protege who tells us he has never been happier? Or the dashing phone magnate with his own grouse moor and a place on Mustique? The revelation that Osborne, the unlamented Tory ex-chancellor, was shortlisted for the chairmanship of Royal Opera House along with Ross, the Tory benefactor and favourite, goes some way to settling the question of whether Ross’s appointment, announced in July, actually was as explicitly political as an arts appointment gets (short of sourcing a Johnson) or only accidentally looked like that. In a role customarily occupied by quieter figures, Ross is conspicuous above all for being stupendously rich
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