June 1, 2021 | By Clive Paget,
Musical America
She may be just 22, but New Zealand-born, U.S.-domiciled violinist Geneva Lewis is clearly one to watch. The recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant and winner of the Grand Prize at the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, Lewis is no stranger to world stages either, having already played the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Next year she will make her recital debut at London’s Wigmore Hall.
Listening to her play you’re struck by the sense of a highly individual musician with a lively but respectful personality who makes interesting and imaginative choices. Go to YouTube and you’ll see she can cover a mean rock song, but that’s another story. Like all musicians she’s been experiencing a little unscheduled downtime of late, but she remains an optimist at heart.
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Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled
Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s
Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s
Sibylline Prophecies
2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents
Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising
Vom Pagen und der Königstochter Op. 140,
Des Sängers Fluch Op. 139,
Requiem für Mignon Op. 98b, and
Nachtlied Op. 108. View here.
2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Wigmore Hall’s 120th anniversary sees the Hall’s Associate Ensemble joined by soprano Mary Bevan for Fauré’s
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s
Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four
Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic of the clarinet in terms of range, technical prowess, tone color, and expressiveness. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
May 14, 2021 | By Susan Elliott,
Musical America
Russian born billionaire Alexander Shustorovich is pretty much singlehandedly keeping IMG Artists afloat. By his own estimation, he has invested “tens of millions” in the company.
Shustorovich, alleged to be a 50-50 share holder with Barrett Wissman, is known to keep a low profile while executing brilliant backend and/or prescient deals that have made him a multi-billionaire and a Trump supporter whose links to Vladimir Putin figured into the 2017-19 Robert Mueller probe.
Billboard’s May 15 edition contains an in-depth interview with him and it may be the first and only ever published in English. Shustorovich speaks openly about his distrust of Wissman. Meanwhile, staff who have left since the Russian’s arrival in 2011 mostly out of distaste for his management style and his initial ignorance and distain for how the classical music business works speak on the record to help tell the story of how Shustorovich has become the