VIDEO PODCAST: Discussion about Bernard Haitink (1929-2021), Salzburg, Roger Doyle's Finnegans Wake Project, the English Symphony Orchestra, the Chopin Competition Warsaw, Los Angeles Opera and other subjects.
THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL: Roderic Dunnett previews the 2024 edition of the UK's oldest music festival, 27 July until 4 August.
German cellist, conductor and teacher Michael Nebe studied at Musik-Hochschule in Dortmund, at King's College London, at the Royal Academy of Music in London, in Czechia with Jirí Belohlávek, Zdeněk Bílek, Georg Tintner and Kirk Trevor, and also in London with Lawrence Leonard.
Nebe lived in London, toured widely as a cellist, was a founding member of the Plaegan Piano Quartet in 1978, and from 1990 was musical director of the Whitehall Orchestra (previously known as the Civil Service Orchestra) and the Fine Arts Sinfonia.
Michael Nebe died on 8 October 2021, following a long illness.
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