The 2nd Hong Kong International Conducting Competition, organised by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, concluded successfully on 26 March 2023 at the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, with Venezuelan conductor Rodolfo Barráez, 29, taking the 1st Prize and Orchestra Prize.…
Scotland’s specialist music school, St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh, is inviting applications from young musicians aged 9 to 16 to audition for September 2023 entry. The school is eager to hear from enthusiastic individuals who have a passion for…
Esplanade Theatres by the Bay presents Pesta Raya – Malay Festival of the Arts – from 18-21 May. The event celebrates the Malay community in its diversity and richness through the best in the performing arts from the Nusantara (Malay…
Yamaha Music School Singapore has opened applications for the 2023 Yamaha Elextone Festival, which returns live. Applications for the competition close on 23 April and selected participants will have the opportunity to perform live in the finals. Results will be…
Organised by Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the 2023 edition of the Singapore International Piano Festival will be held 4-11 June and features Nelson Goerner, Tengku Irfan, Jonathan Biss and Pierre-Laurent Aimard alongside Leon McCawley and Shaun Choo. The event takes place…
GrandMixer DXT, the world’s first ‘Turntablist’, will receive the Hip-Hop Innovator Award at the TEC Experience on 13 April at The 2023 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. The award recognises an artist whose work has advanced the art form of hip-hop, and…
The BBC has made a u-turn on its decision to close the BBC Singers, the UK’s only full-time professional chamber choir, following offers of alternative funding from ‘a number of organisations’.The choir had been targeted by budget cuts shortly before…
The Board of Directors of Fondazione Stauffer in Cremona has appointed Angelica Suanno as the new Academic Director of the Accademia Stauffer, the Stauffer Center for Strings. She will be taking over from Paolo Petrocelli, who moved recently to head…
Musicians from Singapore’s Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) will perform a Prokofiev double bill in a programme featuring a new work by Singaporean composer Dr Zechariah Goh on 8 April 2023. The concert marks the 85th anniversary of the…
Euan Shields, a 24-year-old conductor from the USA/Japan, has won the second Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition. Shields came out on top of more than 200 candidates from six continents. As the winner, Shields will become assistant to Sir Mark…
