Having been on the Arts Council in the UK where she was involved in funding for the arts, British pianist Joanna MacGregor sees the need for funding worldwide as ...
PROKOFIEV is the thread linking American violinist Rachel Lee Priday’s two concerts in Cape Town with the Cape Town Concert Series on June 11 at The Baxter Concert ...
FOR Bernhard Gueller, opening the Cape Town Philharmonic’s winter season on June 16 is a pleasure for several reasons.
FROM concert pianist to concert artists’ manager as well… that’s the leap of faith taken by Bryan Wallick, who will play Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto with the ...
IT MAY be seven years since Singaporean-born British pianist Melvyn Tan last played with the CPO (it was Schumann in 2009), but he has kept his ties with the country, ...
JUST 30 and still “developing as a violinist”, the young Russian superstar Nikita Boriso-Glebsky is refreshingly humble about his road so far travelled. ...
WHEN a comment on the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra’s Facebook says that Alexander Ramm could have been a model, you know you have something special in this package. ...
IT’S been years since Omri Hadari has lived in Cape Town, but it still remains one of his favourites, for its beauty and above all for the friendships he made.
ZIPPING in and out of cities is the rule of thumb, says Jack Liebeck, the young British violinist ...
PETER DONOHOE is a man who knows his scores, but just as much he knows his mind.
Thank heavens for the internet, for catching up with pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi proved a real challenge as he moved around China and America before gearing up for ...
WHILE many guest conductors have experience of music making in different countries, not many have held title positions on three continents.
A TEACHER at the Cologne Music Academy (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz) since 1986, German cellist Maria Kliegel who is playing with the CPO on Thursday and the Concert ...
CATCHING up with pianist Natalia Lavrova before she left New York to embark on her tour of South Africa was challenging – she is so busy that connecting on Skype ...
MORAL outrage makes for good music. ...
IT'S been several years since pianist Pallavi Mahidhara has been in Cape Town – she last gave a recital tour back in 2012 – and she is happy to be back but, horrors, ...
Perry So is on the spot. This young conductor, 33, is returning to Cape Town to open the Spring Symphony Season with two concerts, one of which is an Homage to Sibelius. ...
Playing the violin if you don't practice enough is torture for someone with perfect pitch, says opera conductor and teacher Kamal Khan, and that's why he gave up ...
