Roberto González-Monjas begins his initial three-year tenure as Music Director of Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia (Galicia Symphony Orchestra) conducting the orchestra and violinist Clara-Jumi Kang on 6 and 7 October. The programme features Anders Hillborg’s Eleven...
The storied Emerson String Quartet will give their final, sold-out concerts in October 2023. For more than four decades, the Emersons have been celebrated as one of the world’s premier chamber music ensembles. Their “performances represented an extraordinary fusion of...
Violinist Christian Li continues his 2023/24 season performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto for three much-anticipated European debuts. Li, of whom Limelight writes, “is undoubtedly one of the talents of his generation,” noting his “astonishing technical control and...
Sapporo Symphony Orchestra has announced Elias Grandy as their new Chief Conductor from 2025. The German-Japanese conductor will take over the position for an initial three years starting in April 2025. His contract will take the 43-year-old to Sapporo for eight weeks...
Conductor Stéphane Denève opened his 2023/24 season with the St Louis Symphony Orchestra last Saturday (23 Sep), at the Stifel Theater. The magical programme featured Strauss’ Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto...
Chief Conductor Riccardo Frizza opened the 80th Anniversary season of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra on 20 September, leading a spectacular concert in Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt Academy Hall. Frizza brought the audience on a fascinating journey to Italy through...