The National Opera Orchestra of Montpellier announced on Tuesday that the African-American conductor Roderick Cox has been appointed to the position of music director, succeeding the Dane Michael Schonwandt who held this position between 2015 and 2023. “This young American conductor of great talent will accompany us brilliantly (…) towards one of our great goals: … Read more
When Sir Simon Rattle was young, he played Slavonic Dances by Antonín Dvořák with his father on the piano. “They were instrumental in my decision to pursue music,” he says. Next time he will perform them in Prague as the main guest conductor of the Czech Philharmonic. One of the world’s most famous musicians, whose … Read more
Creepy Nuts’ DJ Matsunaga (left) and MC R- were interviewed and complained about each other, thinking they were watching manga. (Provided by Fun International Culture) [Reporter Liao Lihui/Taipei Report]The Japanese hip-hop group Creepy Nuts performed at the RUSH BALL Music Festival today (14th). This is their first overseas performance. MC R-designated and DJ Matsunaga were … Read more
As soon as he joined, he signed up for Czech music. “Together we will perform the symphony Asrael, Josef Suk’s most important and tragic work. It continues to fascinate me from the moment I first heard it,” announced Kirill Petrenko in 2019 at the first press conference he held as chief conductor of the Berlin … Read more
The Leipzig Gewandhaus wants to create a new orchestra for the Shostakovich Festival 2025. The festival orchestra will consist of members of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and students from the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater, said the director of the Gewandhaus, Andreas Schulz, on Tuesday at the presentation of … Read more
Antonín Dvořák loved nature. “In the most beautiful forest I spend the most wonderful days in beautiful weather and I am constantly admiring the enchanting birdsong,” he wrote in 1884 from his summer residence in Vysoké u Příbram. Eight years later, he reported from New York that nature needed “its diminuendo and morendo to revive … Read more
The Czech Philharmonic will start its season with three concerts from next Wednesday, September 27 to Friday, September 29 at the Rudolfinum in Prague. Under the direction of chief conductor Semjon Byčkov, this time he will exclusively play the works of Antonín Dvořák: the Prelude to Nature, the Violin Concerto in A minor and the … Read more
With the music of Josef Suk and Antonín Dvořák, the PKF – Prague Philharmonia started its jubilee 30th season this Wednesday in a packed Rudolfinum in Prague. It was led by chief conductor Emmanuel Villaume, the soloist in the second half of the evening was cellist Jan Vogler. The German artist presented himself with a … Read more
Pianist Ivo Kahánek is looking forward to the “specific energy” of the renowned Zurich Tonhalle orchestra, with whom he will perform this Friday, September 8, at the Prague Dvořák Festival. The renowned Swiss ensemble will accompany him during Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. In it, the famous composer probably expressed his defiance towards … Read more
Where symphonies and orchestral pieces should have been heard, now only the dripping of water against the floor resounds. Flooding has returned to the Palau de la Música, specifically, in the staff entrance area, in the cafeteria and in the orchestra’s dressing rooms. Last week there were already leaks in the same area, and all … Read more