In this edition of The Podium, we hear from our colleague Antony Ernst (whom regular readers will recognise as having featured in our November 2012 edition when he was Artistic Planning Manager of the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg). Now working with the Royal Danish Orchestra in Copenhagen, Antony provides us with an update on both his career and his views on European music-making generally.

Other articles of note include new Goodear Editions works that have been added to our growing collection, and a feature of our Member orchestra, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. And, of course, Gordon Williams has compiled a Speed Read with some media titbits from around the globe.

Enjoy this edition of The Podium!

Kate Lidbetter
Chief Executive Officer

Antony Ernst has relocated to the Royal Danish Orchestra after nearly seven years in Strasbourg, France. He talks about some of the challenges and opportunities ahead. Read his story.

The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) takes seriously its mission of playing music that moves people. In recent years ASO has been reaching out to its communities in new and exciting ways. Find out more

With a host of sopranos such as Sumi Jo, Emma Matthews and Siobhan Stagg performing with the six symphony orchestras this year, Goodear Editions has been busy preparing a collection of scores and parts for popular items from the soprano repertoire, including:

Introduction, Dance and Vilja Song from Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow (GE 0085 print)

Il bacio by Luigi Arditi (GE 0086 print/digital)

Misera, dove son! by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (GE 0089 in print/digital)

Four songs by Richard Strauss (composer’s orchestration):
- Ich wollt ein Sträusslein binden Op. 68 No. 2 (GE 0090 print)
- Säusle, liebe Myrthe Op. 68 No. 3 (GE 0091 print)
- Zueignung Op. 10 No. 1 (GE 0092 print)
- Freundliche Vision Op. 48 No. 1 (GE 0093 coming soon)

More news from around the world:

The Guardian asks why more millennials are tuning into Classic FM

… while German musicians oppose a plan to use atonal music to clear railway stations of homeless people

and

American orchestras aim to diversify auditions