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All the conducting master class
2023-04-30 13:40:00
12 – 23 Jul, 2023 This year, Casa da Música – Porto will promote the 5th edition of the Remix Ensemble Summer Academy, which includes an international conducting masterclass with Remix Ensemble chief conductor Peter Rundel, along with workshops, chamber music activities and concerts.The conducting students chosen by Peter Rundel will have the opportunity to […]
All the conducting master class
2021-06-28 23:01:27
This year, Casa da Música – Porto will promote the 4th edition of the Remix Ensemble Summer Academy, which includes an international conducting masterclass with Remix Ensemble chief conductor Peter Rundel, along with workshops, chamber music and concerts. During the Summer Academy there will be three concerts open to the public, one with the Remix […]
2021-01-30 17:44:00
Anglais - Contemporary opera: A conversation with Vasco Mendonça
[…] her has in the long run resonated with my own music. My exposure to her and to her music has somehow awakened me to a different, more meditational element, which wasn’t completely formed in my music: a need for space, breath and silence. What are you next projects? I’m having my violin piece A Box of Darkness with a Bird in Its Heart – which was commissioned by the Philharmonie de Paris and Casa da Música – performed by Diana Tishchenko all over Europe. At the end of March, I’ll have a premiere with the Ballet national de Marseille at La Criée – Théâtre National de Marseille of the stage music I wrote for choreographer Tânia Carvalho, and this piece will then go to the Théâtre du Châtelet (in collaboration with the Théâtre de la Ville). This summer I’m recording a portrait CD with the percussion ensemble Drumming […]
2020-11-19 07:24:53
Laurence Cummings to become next music director of the Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings The Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) has announced that Laurence Cummings [see my 2018 interview with him] will become its music director from the start of the 2021/22 season. Cummings is currently music director of the London Handel Festival, artistic director of the Internationale Händel-Festpiele Göttingen and music director of Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música in Porto. The Academy of Ancient Music was founded in 1973 by Christopher Hogwood (1941-2014), who remained music director until 2006 when Richard Egarr (previously associate director) was named music director and Hogwood named Emeritus Director. Richard Egarr's recent projects with the ensemble included the sponsoring of a new edition of Handel's Brockes Passion, along with a live performance and a recording [see my review]. The news of Cummings' appointment comes as AAM returns to live music, with a performance of Handel’s Messiah at the Barbican on 19 December 2020, as part of […]
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