Soprano Charlotte Church becomes latest to snub Trump inauguration
Charlotte Church is the latest artist to state her opposition to performing at US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week. Writing to Trump’s account on … Read more
Charlotte Church is the latest artist to state her opposition to performing at US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week. Writing to Trump’s account on … Read more
Statistics from the classical music events listing site Bachtrack show that Ludwig van Beethoven topped the list of the most performed composers of last year. … Read more
Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall, which experienced a number of lengthy delays during construction, is finally scheduled to open later this week with a concert on … Read more
Nigerian-born singer-songwriter Charity Ekeke’s first album is an eclectic record drawing on various sources of inspiration, but above all issues facing women. The result is … Read more
There seems to be something of a trend of rock stars moving into the classical music realm over recent times. The latest example comes from … Read more
The unmistakable opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony has become so embedded in popular culture that it is hard to imagine it any other way. The … Read more
Canadian-based Stingray is to become a leading player in classical music programming for television after it bought out German-based Unitel. Unitel operates the premium TV … Read more
Violinist Julia Fischer was awarded Germany’s Federal Cross of Merit, the highest civilian award in the country, last month. The prize was a recognition of … Read more
A conductor of an Italian orchestra was fired after telling an audience full of children at a performance shortly after Christmas that Santa does not … Read more
The New Yorker published an inspiring article recently about the efforts of a prisoner to learn to play the piano on a cardboard instrument he … Read more
British composer Alma Deutscher, aged 11, debuted her first opera in Vienna on Thursday. The retelling of Cinderella won high praise and a standing ovation … Read more
Researchers have come up with another answer to the ongoing riddle of what it is about the violins manufactured by Antonio Stradivari that makes them … Read more
Budget airline Norwegian denied German violinist Elia Kaden boarding on one of its flights two days prior to Christmas. Kaden was flying from Oslo to … Read more
Indian-born conductor Zubin Mehta, whose career stretches back over six decades, will retire from his position as musical director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in … Read more
The Asheville Symphony Orchestra has teamed up with several talented musicians from its North Carolina hometown to produce the Asheville Symphony Sessions, an album showcasing … Read more