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Salonen and '70s Disco Guru Win Polar Music Prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nile Rodgers, American songwriter and co-founder of the influential 1970s disco band Chic, and esteemed Finnish classical music composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen won the 2024 Polar Music Prize on Tuesday. The Polar … »
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Catching Up on Competition Wins & Awards
On Feb. 26, Andrey Gugnin [pictured] won the third edition of the Classic Piano International in Dubai. The Russian-born, Netherlands based pianist, 36, took home one of classical music’s most munificent prizes—a cash award of … »
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More Millions for the Cleveland O
A $4.6 million gift to the Cleveland Orchestra from Myrna and Jim Spira will help underwrite artistic programming, the pension and annual funds, and endow the Myrna and Jim Spira Bass Clarinet Chair. This marks the orchestra's third major gift … »
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London Foundation Competition Names Winners
On Feb. 16, the 52 nd George and Nora London Foundation Competition for young North American opera singers selected six winners from among a dozen finalists. Each performed one selection before a live and on-line audience at the Morgan Library … »
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Competition Wins and Honorary Awards
Mannes School of Music at The New School’s College of Performing Arts has chosen Robert Bily to receive the 2024 Alexis Gregory Vendome Prize. The 26-year-old Czech pianist receives $30,000 cash as well as several concert dates throughout … »
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To Combat Sexism, Leeds Introduces Blind Pre-selection Rounds
Fiona Sinclair, chief executive of the Leeds International Piano Competition, has taken aim at the bias that stunts the concert careers of female pianists regardless of their talents. Armed with data from several recent studies, she points to the … »
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Louisville O Wins Its First Grammy
For the first time in its 87-year history, the Louisville Orchestra has received a Grammy Award, winning for The American Project in the Best Classical Instrument Solo category. The original composition, by the orchestra’s music director … »
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The Classical Grammy Award Winners: The List
Best Orchestra Performance Thomas Adès: Dante Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Los Angeles Philharmonic Best Opera Performance Terence Blanchard: Champion Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Ryan Speedo Green, Latonia Moore, … »
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Royal Phil Society Nods to Nearly Ended BBC Singers
The past year ended on a much happier note for the BBC Singers than it began. In early March the BBC announced that the choral group would be disbanded in order to enable the media giant to invest “more widely in the future of choral … »
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Queen Sonja Competition Gets $10M
The Tom Wilhelmsen Foundation has made a NOK 10 million ($960,000) gift to the Queen Sonja Singing Competition. Established in 1988, the biennial Norwegian competition provides an arena for aspiring singers from Norway and around the world to … »
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