MUSIClassical ALLEGRO
Topic: NEWS Industry
Time and again, European orchestral conductors roar into America's side doors, virtually unknown but fully matured and ready to assume major appointments.
Both the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra recently appointed new music directors - respectively Jaap van Zweden [photo] and Manfred Honeck - who came to them as anonymous as guest conductors can be, then inspired knockout reviews and high marks from the players. Going the opposite direction, the even-lesser-known Canadian Yannick Nezet-Seguin is replacing the superstar Valery Gergiev at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra....MORE...
Cuenod, until recently the world's oldest active opera performer, was
known
throughout his seven-decade career for his acting and a light, natural
tenor ...
At age 18, Dominik Maican is already an acclaimed composer, with six symphonies, a mass, chamber music pieces, solo piano works and songs to his credit. Dominik is a U.S. citizen, but was born in Koln, Germany, and moved to Washington, DC, in 1991 with his parents Drs. Valerica Maican and Marcel Maican. Dominik beganstudying piano at the age of 3 and composition at the age of 5 with his mother. He isthe proud recipient of nine piano awards and over 40 awards for musical composition
JACK GALLAGHER [photo] Diversions Overture; The Kiev Philharmonic; Robert Ian Winstin, cond.
The San Antonio Symphony named Ken Masur, the son of
longtime New York Philharmonic music director Kurt Masur, its new
resident
conductor. ...
At the annual Ceremonial of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters in New York, Steven Stucky [left] was inducted as a newly-elected
member, and George Tsontakis [right] was honored with the fourth Charles Ives
Living Award, which provides a generous stipend for three years, enabling
the composer to concentrate on composition, without other salaried
employment during that time.
Was a former conductor of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.
Efrain Guigui died
Monday 18 JUN 2007, in Los Angeles from complications of cancer. Guigui was
81. Music Director and Conductor Efrain Guigui's experience included the Puerto Rico Symphony, the Casals Festival, the Vermont Symphony, the Dartmouth Symphony, and the Panama Symphony. He premiered a great number of contemporary works and was honored with the Ditson Conductors Award for 1986. Maestro Guigui guest conducted in the United States and abroad.
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 1; Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano; Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam; Bernard Haitink, cond.
