VIDEO PODCAST: Come and meet Eric Fraad of Heresy Records, Kenneth Woods, musical director of Colorado MahlerFest and the English Symphony Orchestra and others.
MET STARS: From 2002 until 2021 the late Maria Nockin reported from Arizona, mostly on live opera productions.
DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Improvisation in the classical world and beyond, including contributions from David Arditti, James Lewitzke, James Ross and Steve Vasta.
Austrian guitarist and lutenist Konrad Ragossnig was born in Klagenfurt on 6 May 1932. He studied in Vienna with Karl Scheit and won first prize in the 1961 Concours International de Guitare in Paris.
His concert tours took him to many countries, and he played at various festivals including those in Ann Arbor, Ansbach, Berlin, Hohenems/Feldkirch, Luxembourg, Osaka, Ossiach, Paris, Salzburg, Schwetzingen and Vienna. He also made many radio and TV appearances, and made more than sixty recordings.
He taught in Basel, Vienna and Zurich, and edited several books on guitar music.
He died in Antwerp on New Year's Day 2018, aged eighty-five.