Scott Cantrell

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Oct 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | Scott Cantrell

Richard Wagner conceived his four-opera "Ring" as a Gesamtkunstwerk: a marriage of poetry and music, for voices and orchestra, with coordinated sets, costumes and action. It's a huge, expensive challenge even for top opera companies, calling for powerful singers, an accomplished conductor and orchestra, and a stage director and designer who can enliven a convoluted epic of family dysfunction, greed, destruction and rebirth.

Jul 11, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Scott Cantrell

FORT WORTH — Concerts at the annual Mimir Chamber Music Festival normally present ad hoc ensembles of musicians drawn from major symphony orchestras, chamber groups and conservatory faculties. But Tuesday night’s concert, at Texas Christian University’s PepsiCo Recital Hall, was organized around an established group, the Horszowski Trio. Comprising violinist Jesse Mills, cellist Ole Akahoshi and pianist Rieko Aizawa, the trio added extra string players as the program progressed.

Jul 4, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Scott Cantrell

FORT WORTH — Texas Christian University is a hive of musical activity each summer, with two festivals combining educational and concert activities. In June, it’s PianoTexas International Festival & Academy. July belongs to the Mimir Chamber Music Festival. In its 27th year, Mimir brings young string quartets and piano trios for concentrated coaching by musicians from major symphony orchestras, conservatories and chamber ensembles.

Jul 1, 2024 | dallasnews.com | Scott Cantrell

FORT WORTH — Winners of two of the world’s top piano competitions opened and closed the recital series at this year’s PianoTexas International Festival & Academy at Texas Christian University. Vadym Kholodenko, who took the gold medal in the 2013 Van Cliburn competition, played June 15 at TCU’s Van Cliburn Concert Hall. Eric Lu, top prizewinner in the 2018 Leeds Competition, played the final recital June 29. At age 37, Kholodenko sounded like a seasoned artist.