Violinist.com: Applications Open for Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition 2018, with $100,000 top prize
The Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition is accepting applications for its second-ever competition, which will take place in late summer 2018 in Shanghai, offering considerable prizes including top prize of $100,000.
Gramophone: Record of a Lifetime
Gerard Schwarz is celebrating his 70th birthday with a 30-disc retrospective, and yet the conductor's desire to reach new audiences remains undimmed.
BBC Music Magazine: Sunwoo Shines at the Cliburn Competition
Following his victory in the 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas, pianist Yekwon Sunwoo says that he is 'extremely delighted and a little bit overwhelmed' by a success that will no doubt change the course of his career.
The New Criterion: Taking the Baton
Gerard Schwarz may have had this joke in mind when, as he reveals in his lucid autobiography, he was asked how to become a conductor. “It’s simple,” he answered, “by being a great musician.”
Strings: Prague Summer Nights Festival
Encompassing 18 performances over the course of just one month, and triangulating three grand European cities (Prague, Salzburg, and Tabor), Prague Summer Nights is a heavy mix of learning, culture, and performance all stirred together in one big bowl.
1843 Magazine: Music in the Mountains
At the foot of the Grand Teton mountain range, you’ll hear the wind whispering through the pine trees, trumpeter swans tooting their horns, moose shuffling through the forest – and, for seven weeks this summer, the strains of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Rachmaninov.
Strings: The All-Star Orchestra Shines in a New Season
When you hear “all star,” it’s usually baseball diamonds—not concert halls—that are likely come to mind. But [All-Star Orchestra's] inclusive celebration of the “best of the best” embraces a mega ensemble that unites principals and concertmasters from a host of American orchestras—30, in fact.
Strings Sessions Presents: Anne Akiko Meyers
Tucked away in a rehearsal room at the San Francisco Conservatory, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers took time out of her schedule to perform a few audience-favorites for our latest Strings Session.
BBC Music Magazine: Behind the Baton
Gerard Schwarz's new memoir, Behind the Baton: An American Icon Talks Music, "refreshingly exchanges ephemera for an information-packed, sweeping narrative, full of optimism and affection, that reveals a man whose passionate dedication to music is evident on every page...
Opera Wire: A Passionate Duo at Prague Summer Nights
In collaboration with the Prague Summer Nights, presented by Classical Movements, Sherrill Milnes & Maria Zouves have already directed two Mozart masterpieces with the festival and have garnered rave reviews.