Only the day after the Qatar Philharmonic's debut Prom with its high-powered Korean music director, cellist-turned-conductor Han-Na Chang, Chang announced her resignation due to "persistent administrative difficulties, and irreconcilable artistic differences" with the orchestra's management.
(Everything was marvelously live, led by the company's music director, the cellist Elad Kabilio).
MUSIC AND DANCE BROOKVILLE Tilles Center for the Performing Arts "Celebrating Bach," with Utrecht Bach Sinfonietta and Johan van Iersel, director and cellist.
On Saturday and Sunday a trio of house favorites — the violinist Mark Peskanov (also the barge's artistic director), the cellist Edward Arron and the pianist Jeewon Park — play music of Haydn, Beethoven and Dvorak.
The Met continues to move away from "open-ended residencies," a spokeswoman for Met Museum Presents confirmed on Friday, adding that the Museum Artists, through their artistic director, the cellist Edward Arron, had been invited to create programs in line with Ms. Tomer's new mandate.
Two Emelin members still rule the roost -- the pianist Efrem Briskin serving as artistic director, the cellist David Krieger as executive director -- but they have gathered an eminent faculty around them, including the violinist Aaron Rosand, the cellist Nathaniel Rosen, the clarinetist Julian Milkis and the pianist Vladimir Viardo.
Established chamber players like the flutist Marya Martin (the festival's artistic director), the cellist Fred Sherry and the violinist Ani Kavafian; the violist Cynthia Phelps and the hornist Eric Ralske, both from the New York Philharmonic; and the clarinetist Stephen Williamson, from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, shared the stage with a handful of relative newcomers.
The society's artistic directors, the cellist David Finckel and the pianist Wu Han, anchor the performances.
The violinist Gil Shaham joined the society's artistic directors, the cellist David Finckel and the pianist Wu Han, in a deft, straightforward reading of the Haydn.
The society also announced that its artistic directors, the cellist David Finckel and the pianist Wu Han, who are married, had renewed their contract for a third term, which will take them through the 2018-19 season.
David Harrington, violinist, and the group's artistic director, and Jennifer Culp, cellist, were on either side of the stage.
