It has been confirmed that the American principal violist of the Chilean Chamber Orchestra has died following an accident in Valparaiso in which the orchestra bus took a wrong turn. Four other ...

A witty Jörg Widmann composition, based on Beethoven themes.

An opera diector in Latvia, Mstislav Pentkowsky, has produced two editions, English and Hebrew, of the children’s picture book BRUNDIBAR by Hannelore Brenner as a mark of solidarity with the victims ...

The Korean pianist Minsoo Sohn is best known as the teacher of the unique Yunchan Lim. This week his recording of the first volume of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier is out in the stores. Minsoo is 50.

Here’s what we’re hearing from members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa: The musicians have voted unanimously (100%) in favour of strike action. On Monday, the Managing Director, Nelson ...

Police in Japan have charged the pianist Kyohei Sorita with a serious speeding violation. He is alleged to have been driving at 144 kilometres per hour last December in a zone where the limit is 60kph ...

We hear that the University of Nottingham has decided to close its Department of Music. The faculty has been functioning for more than one hundred years. The decision is part of the University’s ...