News and Press Releases – Page 62 – Seen and Heard International

Newly Discovered Song by Alma Mahler to be Performed in Oxford and Newbury

09/03/201922/02/2018 by AUTHOR

Kokoschka’s Doll and The Art of Love, incorporating Einsamer Gang will be performed in Oxford and Newbury

It is well known that in addition to the fourteen songs by Alma Mahler published in her lifetime, several dozen more – perhaps as many as one hundred – were written and have been lost or destroyed. One of those ‘lost’ songs, Einsamer Gang (Lonely Walk), has recently been discovered and will be given its UK premiere performances by Rozanna Madylus and Counterpoise at the Wagner 1900 conference in Oxford (April) and at the Newbury Spring Festival (May).

World Premiere by Novaya Opera of Pushkin – The Opera in the Theatre in the Woods

09/03/201922/02/2018 by AUTHOR

PUSHKIN – THE OPERA

STAGED WORLD PREMIERE GIVEN BY MOSCOW’S NOVAYA OPERA AT GRANGE PARK OPERA, SURREY: 11-12 JULY 2018

SOME OF OUR REVIEWERS CHOOSE THEIR ‘BEST OF 2017’

06/08/202028/12/2017 by AUTHOR

THE BEST OF 2017

Dénes Várjon Talks to Sebastian Smallshaw About Budapest’s Kamara.hu

02/03/202303/12/2017 by Seb Smallshaw

Dénes Várjon in conversation with Sebastian Smallshaw

András Keller and Dénes Várjon playing Busoni’s Second Violin Sonata at kamara.hu 2019
(c) Liszt Academy/Gábor Valuska

Dénes Várjon studied music at the Liszt Academy with Sándor Falvai, György Kurtág, and Ferenc Rados. Over the last 25 years, he has established an international career as a concert pianist and chamber musician, and is a regular guest at prestigious festivals in Europe and the United States. Since 2015, he has been artistic co-director of the chamber music festival kamara.hu, which he coordinates together with his wife, the pianist Izabella Simon. I spoke with Dénes Várjon in Budapest, just after he had performed in the second concert of this year’s kamara.hu.

R.I.P. IN MEMORIAM – DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY (1962-2017)

06/08/202029/11/2017 by AUTHOR

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017) dies at 55

Seen and Heard-International is saddened to have heard of the death – after a courageous fight against cancer – of the wonderful Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, at much-too-early age of 55.

2422-hvorostovsky_1 — Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962-2017)

Ann Murray’s Masterclass at the V&A Part of Opera: Passion, Power and Politics

21/01/202018/11/2017 by Jack Buckley

A Great Tradition Lives: Ann Murray’s Masterclass at the V&A (Royal College of Music)

Like all the world’s greatest teachers, Gioacchino Rossini was much more focused on what he could get out of a pupil than what he could put in. But the maestro was also a composer, in my spare time, he used to quip. So it was not unknown for him to to put something into the pupil too.

JIŘÍ BĔLOHLÁVEK (1946-2017) AND THE CZECH CONDUCTING LEGACY

09/03/201921/09/2017 by Geoffrey Newman

Jiří Bělohlávek and the Czech Conducting Legacy

One mourns the recent passing of Czech conductor Jiří Bělohlávek (24 February 1946 – 31 May 2017) not only because he was a wonderfully discerning musician, but also because he perpetuated a conducting legacy that linked back to the great Czech composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Katie Lowe Wins the 2017 Elizabeth Connell Prize

09/03/201918/09/2017 by AUTHOR

2017 Elizabeth Connell Prize Winner Announced

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — Katie Lowe (c) Zohar Izenberg

KATIE LOWE from England Cheshire born 31 year old English soprano Katie Lowe has won the 4th annual Elizabeth Connell Prize for aspiring Dramatic Sopranos held in Sydney Australia on 16 September. Ms Lowe receives $30,000 and an audition at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. The Finalists were chosen from live auditions held in London, New York, Zurich, Paris and Melbourne and competed over 3 rounds in Sydney for the prize. Ms Lowe sang the “Immolation Scene” from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung and “Suicidio” from La Gioconda by Ponchiello in the Final Round.

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