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10 Jun 2013

Mariss Jansons awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize

On 4 June, Mariss Jansons was officially presented with the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize by Dieter Borchmeyer, President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, at the Prinzregententheater in Munich. Baritone Thomas Hampson also gave a speech in his honour, and members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Jansons’s ‘other’ permanent orchestra, performed.

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01 Jun 2013

New orchestra member Vilém Kijonka

Violist Vilém Kijonka will be joining the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on 1 June. Kijonka hails from the Czech Republic but has lived in the Netherlands since 2004.

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