To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development have invited the No Borders Orchestra to provide the cultural event at their gala evening on 11th May at the Guildhall in London.

“One can hardly imagine van Bloss playing the power-pounding bravura concertos of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. To be sure he has the technical arsenal to play those scores or pretty much anything else in the standard repertoire of a traveling virtuoso. Van Bloss’s artistic personality and musicianship, however, places a premium on refinement, subtlety and intellectually probing interpretations and the Beethoven and Bach scores he assayed Monday night were a perfect fit.” Lawrence Budmen reviews Nick van Bloss’s performance of the Diabelli Variations at the Miami International Piano Festival, you can read the full review here.

“A fresh interpretation of oft-played music is a rare treat. Yet that is precisely what patrons of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra experienced when English pianist Nick van Bloss performed Beethoven’s monumental ‘Emperor’ concerto. Each movement had its surprises — stark deviations from tradition that drew forth new musical characters from the timeless score, all executed with confidence and supreme artistry.” You can read Andrew Schartmann’s full review of Nick van Bloss’s performance with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra here.

“Brilliant technique and sublime musicianship is applied to these scores combined with an almost defiant will to avoid hamming things up and turning the music into a chocolate-box relic of a bygone age. “

Dominy Clements reviews Nick’s latest Schumann CD for Music Web International.

“…mixing up Beethoven and Lutoslawski, Schumann and Glass, Richard Strauss and Shulamit Ran…”

Peter Quantrill introduces Christoph von Dohnányi’s new digitaldigital archive.

As part of the Christoph von Dohnányi @85 celebrations in the 2014/15 season, Christoph von Dohnányi joins Tom Service, Nicholas Payne (Director Opera Europa) and Peter Katona (Director of casting, Royal Opera House Covent Garden) at the Royal Academy of Music to reflect on his memorable career in the theatre.

We are delighted to announce that PUSKAS INTERNATIONAL artist management & consultancy has taken on the general management of the No Borders Orchestra.

The No Borders Orchestra (NBO) is a symphony orchestra comprised of excellent professional musicians from every country of the former Yugoslavia. Originally inspired by the West-Eastern Divan orchestra, the NBO grew out of the desire to create a regional cross-border symphony orchestra of the Western Balkans, one that delivers the highest artistic quality and calls for a new kind of communication in order to overcome nationalism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and the bloody legacy of the past.

Since its formation in 2012 NBO has developed a successful track record. The NBO performed well-received concerts at the leading festivals in the Balkan region (Ljubljana Festival in Slovenia, Kotor Art in Montenegro, BEMUS in Belgrade, Pristina festival in Kosovo etc). The NBO made its first international appearance at Radialsystem in Berlin in October 2013 as well as touring throughout 2014/15 with a new production of the Verdi/Cassol opera “Macbeth” directed by renowned South African theatre director Brett Bailey. For this opera production NBO received favourable reviews at Wiener Festwochen in Vienna, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Festival d`Automne in Paris, Operadagen in Rotterdam, Theaterformen in Braunschweig, at theBarbican in London, Lisbon, Strasbourg etc.

NBO’s debut album “The Opening” was released in May 2015 on UniversalMusic/Deutsche Grammophon.

http://www.nobordersorchestra.org/

‘Wonderfully fresh’…’urgent in its desire to communicate’: Nicholas Kenyon reviews Nick’s Beethoven CD for the Guardian, read the full review here.

Christoph Wellner interviews Nick van Bloss for Vienna’s classical station after his recital earlier this year at the piano festival in Deutsschlandsberg about his new Beethoven CD for Nimbus Records, Bach, Chopin and the new release of Nick’s Biography.

Nick’s new Beethoven CD is reviewed by Dominy Clements for MusicWeb International:

“…All things considered, this has to be seen as a standard by which other recordings can be judged…”

“…Superbly recorded and performed, generous is timing and content, this is one of the most recommendable Diabelli Variations currently available…”

You can read the full review here.

“How lucky are we to hear such a personal and refreshing performance of both the Diabelli Variations and the Appassionata. Nick van Bloss’s playing is fluid, extremely transparent, non-sentimental, yet always gripping by its rhythmic force.”

Remy Franck reviews Nick van Bloss’s new Beethoven CD on Pizzicato.

Nick van Bloss joined Tim Lihoreau’s Wednesday webchat on Classic FM. You can read the full chat here.

Nick van Bloss talks about his upcoming release of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations in the latest edition of the BBC Music Magazine. Read the full intervew here.

Nick van Bloss discusses his recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and Sonata ‘Appassionata’ in the Nimbus Concert Hall:

We are delighted to announce that PUSKAS INTERNATIONAL artist management & consultancy has taken on the management of Martyn Harry. Professor Martyn Harry is a contemporary classical composer, and music lecturer at Oxford University. He is Annie Barnes Fellow in Music at St Anne’s College Oxford and Lecturer in Music at St Hilda’s College, where he also serves as artistic director of the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building. Read Martyn’s full biography here.