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Conductor who inspired 'Tár' in new role at Polish Orchestra

Marin Alsop, the MacArthur award winning composer — whose career’s similarities to the protagonist of 'Tár' put her in headlines last year — has been announced as the next director of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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The world-renowned conductor has announced he will quit his post in August after just two years at the helm

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Chineke, Europe's first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra, has been leading the way in creating a more diverse future for classical music.

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Gustavo Dudamel leaves LA for move to New York Philharmonic

The famous Venezuelan conductor is leaving Los Angeles after being wooed east to the Big Apple.

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Meet the Spanish orchestra making sweet music with trash

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You realise how good it is to recycle by looking at those violins and how good they sound.

26/12/2022

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'Speaking to the soul': Kyiv Symphony Orchestra starts European tour

The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra will be performing for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine

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Bernard Haitink, 'unshowy' dutch conductor, dies aged 92

Haitink was nominated for nine Grammy Awards and won two, for 2003 opera recording with the Royal Opera for Janácek’s “Jenufa” and for 2008 orchestral performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4.

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New do-it-yourself COVID test kit is music to ears of Czech orchestra

It means it's easier for the orchestra to rehearse together in the run-up to a busy festive season.

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They played to stand against the government's decision to keep concert halls under lockdown.

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The brilliant Chinese pianist has delighted audiences by performing Rachmaninov's 4th piano concerto with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin

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Maestro Noseda conquers Washington with the Eroica

National Symphonic Orchestra's new musical director gets standing ovation on first night.

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Rolando Villazón and Ildar Abdrazakov team up for a rare series of duets in a Europe-wide tour.

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Robot conductor shares stage with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli

The musical machine made its opera debut at a charity concert in Pisa

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Amsterdam welcomes Maestro Gatti

Milanese Maestro Daniele Gatti takes the helm of Amsterdam's world renowned Concertgebouw Orchestra

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World's 'largest orchestra' performs in Germany

The world record for the largest orchestra has been broken, according to the German Institute for Records.

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Rising maestro enchants Dresden

Dresden is a unique venue and has seen many a mesmerising concert.

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Flashmob orchestra floods Berlin shopping centre

The German Symphonic Orchestra, led by honorary conductor Kent Nagano, held an impromptu concert in a Berlin shopping mall.

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Zurich's Tonhalle Orchestra triumphs on tour

With young Lionel Bringuier at the helm, and starring Lisa Batiashvili and Gautier Capuçon, the Zurich Tonhalle has been wowing the audience in Vienna

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