(Credit: Genesis Foundation official website) The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced that famed Serbian composer Isidora Žebeljan has died at the age of 54, after a long illness. Žebeljan graduated from the Faculty of Musical Arts in Belgrade. She was subsequently engaged as a professor of composition at the same faculty since 2002. Žebeljan received commissions from {…}
(Credit: La Compagnia del Madrigale official website) Italian bass Daniele Carnovich has died at the age of 63. Carnovich graduated from the Conservatorio C. Pollini di Padova. He initially obtained a degree in the modern transverse flute, and then became fully devoted to the vocal studies. He subsequently specialized in the baroque repertoire. The bass had begun his concert activity {…}
On September 15, 2020, Polish conductor and composer Jan Krenz passed away at the age of 94. Krenz is noted for being a part of a generation of musicians responsible for reviving the arts in Poland after World War II. Born in the city of Włocławek on July 14, 1926, Krenz first studied piano in Warsaw. When the Germans occupied {…}
On September 15, Dutch mezzo-soprano and teacher Caroline Kaart passed away at the age of 89. Born on December 21, 1931, Kaart started her career as a presenter for a musical television program titled “Een song met Caroline” in the Netherlands. As a singer, she has performed at the Royal Albert Hall in an anniversary concert for Queen Elizabeth II, {…}
In early April, Paschal Allen died in the city of London due to Covid-19. Throughout his career, he toured extensively through Europe and Australia and sang with the Royal Opera House for 15 years. Born in Armagh, Ireland, Allen sang treble in the local Catholic cathedral choir, and at the age of 19 performed the leading role in a local {…}
German mezzo-soprano and director Annette Jahns passed away on September 11, 2020 with the cause of death listed as a prolonged illness. Born in 1958 in the city of Dresden, Jahns began training as a singer at age 17 at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music in Dresden, where she studied under Judith Beckmann, Ute Niss, and Theo {…}
(Credit: Julien Pohl) Belgian conductor Patrick Davin has died at the age of 58 on September 9, 2020, after suffering a heart attack before one of the rehearsals of the Jean-Luc Fafchamps’ pop-requiem “Is This the End?” at La Monnaie Opera House in Brussels. The former student of Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös, Davin was frequently invited to perform works {…}
On September 3, 2020, Czech soprano Miloslava Fidlerová passed away at the age of 98. She is remembered for her four-decade career with the National Theatre in Prague. Born on April 28, 1922, Fidlerová was drawn to music at an early age, playing piano and singing in the local children’s choir. At the age of 15, she joined the Prague {…}
(Credit: Oberon’s Grove) French coloratura soprano Christiane Eda-Pierre has died at the age of 88. Eda-Pierre was born in Fort-de-France, capital of Martinique. She came to France to finish her studies at Conservatoire de Paris and in 1957, she made her professional debut in the role of Leïla in Bizet’s “Les pêcheurs de perles.” She went on to perform at {…}
(Credit: holtenau.at) Austrian baritone Rudolf Holtenau has died in Vienna on August 30, at the age of 88. Holtenau, who born in Salzburg, sang a lots of role throughout his career, with an emphasis on Wagner operas. Holtenau began his vocal studies in Linz, and then moved to Vienna where he finished his professional education. He debuted in Klagenfurt, and {…}
(Credit: www.glossamusic.com) Italian conductor and countertenor Claudio Cavina has died at the age of 58. In 2016 Cavina suffered a stroke and had struggled with his health ever since. Cavina was one of the most important Italian countertenors of his generation. He began his vocal studies in Bologna, and continued his training at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He performed globally {…}
