IMPOSSIBLE DREAM: Violinists Maxim Vengerov and Aleksey Igudesman, violist Amihai Grosz, cellists Jan Vogler, Alisa Weilerstein and Rolando Fernández, and bassist Edicson Ruiz were among 29 top musicians lending their talents to an ‘Impossible Orchestra’ put together by Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, as part of a charitable project in her home country. The musicians performed an arrangement of Márquez’s Danzón no.2 in a video to raise money for Fondo Semillas and Save The Children Mexico, which work to combat violence directed at women and children. At the time of going to press, more than €275,000 had already been raised. The video can be viewed at bit.ly/3jaVPyc.
Artist management agency Hazard Chase closed in March owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. Now its founder and director James Brown has launched a new firm, James Brown Management Ltd, representing several former Hazard Chase artists. The new company’s artist managers all come from the previous agency as well. The string players currently represented by JMB are violinists Anthony Marwood, Francesca Dego, Henning Kraggerud, Hyeyoon Park and Viviane Hagner; and cellist Laura van der Heijden.