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San Francisco Symphony Appointments
Davies Symphony Hall, San FranciscoPhoto by Lisa HirschThis past week, San Francisco Symphony announced two important appointments:Yubeen Kim, 26, will be the next principal flute of the orchestra, succeeding Tim Day, who retired at the end of 2020-21 after 14 years with the orchestra. Kim is currently the principal flute of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. He has held that position since 2016 and won the position at age 19 (!). Kim joins the orchestra in January, 2024. His trial week was the Beethoven Eb program in June (Salonen/Levit); he has an extraordinarily beautiful sound, which you can hear at his web site.Katherine Siochi, 29, will be the next principal harp, succeeding Douglas Rioth, who retired at the end of December, 2021 after 40 years as a member of the orchestra. She has served as principal harp in several orchestras, most recently the Minnesota Orchestra.Congratulations to both of these musicians! I am so looking […]
All the conducting master class
2023-02-11 16:32:57
Aspen, CO Position Available May 1, 2023 Founded in 1949, the Aspen Music Festival and School is regarded as one of the top classical music festivals in the United States, noted for its concert programming and its musical training of mostly young-adult music students. The typical eight-week summer season includes more than 400 classical music […]
2022-03-26 05:25:00
Classical Music News of the Week, March 26, 2022
Chicago Area's 49th Annual Bach Week FestivalThe Chicago area’s 49th annual Bach Week Festival will present concerts in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, from April 24 to May 12, 2022.Performances will include the Baroque music festival’s first mainstage period-instrument program; a concert of Johann Sebastian Bach sacred and secular vocal masterworks, including the great Magnificat of 1723; the return of international piano sensation Sergei Babayan in an all-Bach solo recital; and a concert of Bach keyboard and violin concertos paired with a double-flute concerto by a Bach contemporary, composer-flutist Johann Joachim Quantz.“What’s striking, to me, about this year’s festival is the presence of works we’ve never performed before, alongside compositions that have been mainstays over the decades,” says Richard Webster, Bach Week’s music director since 1975. “We’re always on the lookout for ways to refresh and renew the festival.”Webster played harpsichord and organ at Evanston’s first Bach Week in 1974, which he […]
2021-07-19 21:01:05
Berkeley’s production of Mozart’s "The Magic Flute" was opening at the Benedict Music Tent on Saturday when his passing away was announced from the stage. Alan Fletcher, Aspen Music Festival and School’s (AMFS) president and CEO, music director Robert Spano, and board chair Michael Klein led the audience in a moment of silence before beginning […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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