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The Violin ChannelScenesMats Thiersch Wins Concours de Genève's Conducting Edition The 2026 Concours de Genève 's Conducting Edition has just concluded, after the three finalists conducted the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in works by Bartók, Mahler, Prokofiev, Strauss, and…

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The Violin ChannelScenesCliburn Announces 2025 Competition Docuseries Titled "Exit Stage Right" While the Cliburn has produced 12 feature-length documentaries about the Competition since 1977, the organization recently announced its first-ever docuseries, entitled "Exit Stage Right." Directed…

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The Violin ChannelScenesInaugural Pehlivanian International Conducting Competition Announces Semifinalists The Pehlivanian International Conducting Competition (PICC 2026) is currently taking place in Bled, Slovenia.

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The Violin ChannelScenesViolist Isabel Hagen Directs and Stars in New Comedy Film "On a String" Violist Isabel Hagen , also a comedian and filmmaker, recently released her debut feature film, On a String .

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The Violin ChannelScenesWürth Group Extends its Contract as Main Sponsor of the Salzburg Festival The Salzburger Festspiele announced that Würth Group has extended its contract as a Main Sponsor of the Festival for an additional three years, through 2030.

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The Violin ChannelScenesFinalists Announced at the Long-Thibaud Violin Competition Founded more than 80 years ago by the renowned pianist Marguerite Long , the Long-Thibaud Competition now offers a total prize pot of more than €85,000.

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The Violin ChannelScenesJaime Martín Extends Contract as Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) announced a contract extension for Jaime Martín , who will now serve as the orchestra's Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor until the end of 2029.

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The Violin ChannelScenesApple Music Classical Names Yunchan Lim's "Goldberg Variations" as Classical Album of the Year 2026 Korean pianist Yunchan Lim has been named the recipient of Apple Music Classical 's Album of the Year for 2026. The honor is bestowed for his disc Bach: Goldberg Variations — Live at Carnegie Hall .

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The Violin ChannelScenesMetropolitan Opera to Live-Stream Missy Mazzoli's Opera "Lincoln in the Bardo" The Metropolitan Opera announced that it will broadcast the final performance of Missy Mazzoli's opera Lincoln in the Bardo for free on YouTube.

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The Violin ChannelScenesThe World Premiere Recording of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" Made in 1938 Samuel Barber's famous Adagio for Strings began life as the slow movement of his String Quartet Op. 11, but the composer arranged it for string orchestra in 1936 at the request of the famed conductor…

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.