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Solti Foundation US announces 2021 Career Assistance Awards 12/05/2021 The American Solti Foundation announced the young American conductors who have been selected as 2021 recipients of The Sir Georg Solti Career Assistance Award. They are, Assistance Award (in alphabetical order) are conductors: Nathaniel Efthimiou, founding Music Director of Orchestra Contempo, Assistant Conductor, Boston Civic Symphony, Assistant Director of Music at Boston’s historic Park Street Church and acting Assistant Conductor, Rhode Island Philharmonic; Kevin Fitzgerald, Assistant Conductor of the Alabama Sy...

Solti Foundation U.S. Board Chair Penny Van Horn and Elizabeth Buccheri, Artistic and Awards Committee Chair, today announced remotely from their respective homes the young American conductors who have been selected as 2021 recipients of The Sir Georg Solti Career Assistance Award. "The 2020-21 season has been a time of joy and sadness. Our Foundation has lost a shining light, Lady Valerie Solti, who passed away earlier this season. Her committment to her late husband's legacy and joy in helping up and coming musicians in the conducting world made our Foundation a reality. We celebrate her an...

   The Brass Band Conductors Association (BBCA) has confirmed the adjudicating panel for the upcoming online version of its annual conducting competition. New addition In an exciting new addition, Flowers Band Musical Director Paul Holland, and Brendan Breslin, a former winner of the competition, will be joined by the internationally acclaimed Norwegian conductor Bjarte Engeset. Engeset has worked as Music Director of the Tromsø Symphony Orchestra and the Norwegian Wind Ensemble, and is the Artistic Director of Norway's Northern Lights Festival and Opera Nord, as well as being permanent gu...

Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai also names Fabio Luisi Conductor Emeritus

Ravinia Festival to Announce Summer Concert Lineup This Week Ravinia canceled its 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic and closed the park for what organizers said was the first time since the Great Depression Published May 4, 2021 • Updated on May 4, 2021 at 2:22 pm NBC Universal, Inc. The Ravinia Festival will announce their summer concert lineup this week for an in-person 2021 season, offering "its signature mix of classical, popular and chamber music" concerts, according to organizers. Ravinia announced the lineup will be shared Thursday, although organizers alre...