+++ Trio Mediaeval touring Ireland and Great Britain: Between 19 June and 3 July, the three sopranos can be heard with a variety of different programs at the Stour Music Festival, the St Magnus Festival on the Orkney Islands, the West Cork Music Festival and the Chichester Festivities.
+++ Eliahu Inbal will conduct the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne and at the Rheingau Musik Festival: Works by Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner are on the programme of the concerts with the WDR Radio Symphony Orchestra Cologne that Eliahu Inbal will conduct on 2 and 3 July.
+++ The Auryn Quartet will be awarded an ECHO Klassik: For their recording of Joseph Haydn's string quartet op. 1, the Auryn Quartet will receive the prestigious ECHO Klassik award in the category best chamber music recording of the year. The quartet will be honoured at the awards ceremony on 18 October at the Semperoper in Dresden.
+++ Jérémie Rhorer will conduct 'Così fan tutte' in Beaune: Following Idomeneo and the great success of their Nozze di Figaro, Jérémie Rhorer and his orchestra Le Cercle de l'Harmonie will return to the Festival International d'Opéra Baroque de Beaune with another Mozart opera.
+++ Tabea Zimmermann with new solo CD: On more than 30 CDs, the violist has documented her musical work so far. Surprisingly, the recording of works by Bach and Reger is her first solo recording.
+++ Alexander Liebreich has renewed his contract as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the MKO: The Munich Chamber Orchestra and its Artistic Director have agreed to extend his tenure which will now continue until the end of the 2013/14 season.
+++ New with us - Caroline Stein: We are extremely pleased to welcome Caroline Stein to our roster of artists for general management. The lyrical coloratura soprano has not only made her mark with her very diverse classical opera repertoire, having also had great success with contemporary works.
