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The only global magazine for performing arts professionals. We go backstage to bring you news and views from some of the arts’ most innovative voices.

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🚀 The new International Arts Manager is out! Explore Hong Kong’s EKCC and Barry Ng on tech-driven performance, plus Germany’s Gasteig at 40, classical streaming, and Theater der Welt 2026. News, columns, and more inside. 📖: internationalartsmanager.com… #PerformingArts
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Only a couple of weeks left to get your application in to this fantastic arts program for Arts & Culture executives.
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🎭 From Opera Australia's children's chorus to leading one of the UK’s most dynamic arts organisations, Andrew Comben shares his journey, mentors, and unexpected lessons learned along the way. 📖 Read the full interview here 👇 tinyurl.com/wvrd67pd
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Michael Haefliger, Executive and Artistic Director of Lucerne Festival since 1999, is set to step down in 2025. Celebrated for his bold vision and impact on global music festivals, he receives ISPA’s International Citation of Merit Award. 👇 tinyurl.com/ymmhth6t
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🎼 Classical Music Signings 🎼 🌟 The Kronos Quartet has joined the roster of MKI Artists 🌟 Pianist Beatrice Rana has joined Intermusica 🌟 Canadian-American pianist Bryan Wagorn has joined Askonas Holt More updates 👉 tinyurl.com/hwbjsevw
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🎤 Artist updates! ✨ Elisabeth Boudreault joins IMG Artists for general management. 🌟 Karita Mattila signs with Opus 3 Artists for global management. 🎶 Aphrodite Patoulidou joins Askonas Holt. More updates 👉 tinyurl.com/yav3565c
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Joy-Leilani Garbutt, co-founder of the Boulanger Initiative, a nonprofit championing music by women, shares her routines, influences, and favorite city in the latest Six In Sixty! 👇 tinyurl.com/47saty7x
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The Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) has opened applications for its 2026 UP NEXT! Artist Pitch Session, set to take place during the APAP|NYC 2026 Conference on 9 January 2026 at the New York Hilton Midtown. Sign up before 8 August! 👇 tinyurl.com/5d58p399
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🎶 Newly uncovered orchestral works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor are brought to dazzling life in an album of world-premiere studio recordings, released August 1 by @avierec and performed on September 20 at @strathmore 🎧 Listen & learn more: nationalphilharmonic.org/col…
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One hundred years after its founding, Cologne’s premier music and dance institution looks to the future, blending musical heritage with modern expression, during a week-long festival. 👉 tinyurl.com/3shxtjmh
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Fizza Hasan, founder and Artistic Director of Theatre Wallay in Islamabad and an ISPA fellow, has spent nearly two decades using the stage to challenge injustice, amplify marginalised voices and ignite vital conversations 👉 tinyurl.com/3sc4yp3z
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From tea in bed to true crime podcasts on the go, Aurora Orchestra's Marketing Manager shares her daily rituals, career inspirations, and guilty pleasures 👉 Read the full Q&A: tinyurl.com/35mrrras
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🎶 Classical Signings 🎶 ✨ Giulia Semenzato joins Intermusica - Baroque & Mozart star! 🌟 Karen Slack signs with Only Stage - 2025 Grammy winner, touring African Queens. 🔥 Hovhannes Ayvazyan joins TACT - singing Cavaradossi, Don José & Calaf ➡ tinyurl.com/bdee8uh8
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"Whether you are an artist, company, festival, arts manager or institution—and whether new to the performing arts sector or long-established—there is one need we all share: money." By Grace Okereke 👉 tinyurl.com/yjp7396k
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"The Mogao Caves haven’t just preserved Tang Dynasty art and music [...] Music inspired by the caves isn’t just about ancient sounds—it has given voice to something timeless." Read the full interview with Composer and conductor Tan Dun👇 tinyurl.com/85f6stx8

Interviews with Tan Dun and Shen Wei

During my research in Xiangxi, I discovered the Tujia people using trained monkeys to pick tea from dangerous cliffs. But most of the tea-pickers were women.

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Baritone Benjamin Appl album For Dieter: The Past and the Future was released on 23 May 2025 on Alpha Classics. Read back the Six in Sixty interview we held with him now👇 tinyurl.com/57at44en
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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is now accepting applications for the Bowers Program. Open to both individuals and ensembles from around the world, the programme offers a fully immersive experience. 👉 tinyurl.com/u6wa7wmk
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"At one concert, the dark lines in Maurice Duruflé’s 1941 Requiem (“The departed shall be freed from the jaws of the lion! They shall not be swallowed up by hell or fall into darkness”) almost seemed to become a reality." By Florian Riem 👇 tinyurl.com/ffjfvsfp

Side Notes May 2025

Side Notes by Florian Riem

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Aristo Sham has won the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition! ✨ 👉 tinyurl.com/29mccrsn
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🎶 Musical chairs in the arts world: 🎭 Brian DeMaris is the new President and General Director of Arizona Opera. 🎼 Angela Mallinson becomes Chair of Britten Pears Arts. 📣 Kristen Turner joins Bucklesweet as Director of Communications. 👉 tinyurl.com/bddn4kdy
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