Deutsche Oper Berlin General Music Director Donald C. Runnicles Knighted

(Credit: Opus 3 Artists official website) The Office of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has announced the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2020. Among those honored was General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin Donald Cameron Runnicles, who has been bestowed with the title of the Knights Bachelor, for services to Music. Donald Runnicles is concurrently the General Music Director {…}

Alpesh Chauhan Appointed New Associate Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

(Credit: Patrick Allen) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has announced that Alpesh Chauhan has been appointed the new Associate Conductor. Chauhan has performed a wide-ranging repertoire with the BBC SSO, which includes works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Gustav Mahler, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Jan Sibelius, and Leoš Janáček, among others. “I’m so excited to be taking up this position with {…}