Notes from the Podium Members Only – Page 4

Vasily Petrenko on Mental and Physical Preparation for Concerts

Published on 2nd January 20242nd January 2024 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

Image: Svetlana Tarlova 29th November 2023 Vasily Petrenko is Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he...

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Jonathan Kent CBE on Directing Opera (Britten, Puccini, Mozart, Purcell)

Published on 4th October 20234th October 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

13th July 2023 Jonathan Kent’s opera productions include Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Britten’s The Turn of the Screw (Glyndebourne Festival...

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Robyn Bollinger on the Role of the Concertmaster (Tchaikovsky)

Published on 4th October 20234th October 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

6th September 2023 Daring, versatile, and charismatic, American violinist Robyn Bollinger was appointed Concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra...

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Václav Luks on Zelenka

Published on 4th October 202330th March 2024 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

Photo: Petra Hajská, 2018 4th September 2023 Václav Luks studied at the Pilsen Conservatoire and the Academy of Performing...

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Sir David Bintley on the Matthew Hindson Ballets

Published on 8th July 20238th July 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

May 1st 2023 David Bintley joined Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet after graduating from The Royal Ballet School in 1976....

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John Andrews on Dame Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald

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(Photo: Katharine Andrews) 31st May 2023 John Andrews is Principal Guest Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra and...

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TÁR Review: It’s a Masterpiece

Published on 8th July 20239th August 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

(updated 9th August 2023) Introduction The TÁR zeitgeist may have come and gone, but an in-depth review of this...

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Sir Roger Norrington on Schumann’s Symphonies

Published on 9th January 20238th November 2025 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

28th November 2022 For fifty years Roger Norrington has been at the forefront of the movement for historically informed...

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Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey on the orchestral music of Afghanistan

Published on 9th January 202310th January 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

(Photo: Oliver Oppitz) 27th October 2022 Orchestral conductor Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey is emblematic of the 21st century’s newest vanguard of...

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Simon Beck on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel

Published on 9th January 20239th January 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

8th November 2022 Simon Beck studied conducting, piano and French horn at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama,...

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