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A VERY SPECIAL ‘TRAVIATA’

Teatro RealJuly 10, 2020

A Dialogue with the Visual Arts

Salzburger FestspieleJuly 9, 2020

Deutsche Grammophon launches DG Stage

Serenade TeamJune 27, 2020

The Best of Both Worlds

ON StageJune 23, 2020

IDAGIO launches in Japan and announces live concerts in the Global Concert Hall

IDAGIOJune 19, 2020

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AN INVALUABLE LEGACY

ON StageJanuary 8, 2019

LYDIAN NADHASWARAM: BEYOND THE BLINDFOLD

Vishwas GaitondeMarch 13, 2019

Stephen Kovacevich

Priya ChaturvediJanuary 1, 2020

Zakir Hussain and the SOI open UK tour at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall

Rupert AvisFebruary 22, 2019

THE SOPRANO SOARS

Mehroo KotvalJanuary 1, 2019

“Music is the totality of what I do” – Pinchas Zukerman: In Conversation

Priya ChaturvediApril 5, 2019

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A VERY SPECIAL ‘TRAVIATA’

Teatro RealJuly 10, 2020

The Teatro Real has reopened its doors to the public on July 1 with strict health and safety measures. Nicola Luisotti, a renowned expert in Verdi and ... Continue Reading...

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A Dialogue with the Visual Arts

Salzburger FestspieleJuly 9, 2020

A poster series commemorating the Salzburg Festival’s centenary can be viewed since Friday and through the end of August on the Makartsteg bridge in Salzburg. F... Continue Reading...

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Education Through Music: In Conversation with Anil Srinivasan

Navya ChittarvuJuly 6, 2020

A musician cannot become complete with just expertise in singing or playing an instrument flawlessly. They might not even become great just by mastering one gen... Continue Reading...

Interviews7 min read

Striving for Excellence in Online Piano Pedagogy: Characteristics of Expert Teachers Using the Video-Conferencing Format

Piano MagazineJuly 3, 2020

During a recent tour at the Bell Homestead in my hometown of Brantford, Ontario, Canada, I came across an interesting fact. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell set u... Continue Reading...

Music Education14 min read

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Remembering what ‘good’ sounds like

ABRSMJuly 1, 2020

On London’s South Bank there is (or at least there was – it’s odd to think that I haven’t been in London since early March) a large banner of the cellist Sheku ... Continue Reading...

Music EducationSponsored9 min read

Man of Many Firsts

ON StageJune 29, 2020

Cited as the first composer to rethink every parameter of his music, Franz Liszt was an inveterate boundary-pusher, as eccentric as he was prolific, and without... Continue Reading...

Know Your Composer5 min read

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Deutsche Grammophon launches DG Stage

Serenade TeamJune 27, 2020

Deutsche Grammophon has launched DG Stage - a new key feature in DG Premium. DG Stage has opened for the purchase of tickets to watch streams of a dazzling seri... Continue Reading...

What does a Young Musician of the Year finalist have in common with a five-year-old banging a drum?

Sandy HollandJune 25, 2020

In the UK, the biennial BBC Young Musician of the Year returned this year with a difference. The Category Finals, broadcast in May, were recorded before social ... Continue Reading...

Music Education3 min read