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A student from Vietnam, Linh Hong Nguyen, died when a car mounted a sidewalk in Red Hook, NY as she walked home from receiving her master’s degree at Bard College. Her tragic death was confirmed […]

The British conductor Jan Latham-Koenig, who pleaded guilty to three offences of soliciting a person he believed to be underage on a gay dating app, was given a 14-month sentence suspended for two years at […]

By our roving New York critic Susan Hall:   Maestra, a lively documentary film by Maggie Contreras, opens in the United States this week. The film follows five contestants in the second biennial Maestra competition […]

All middle-school students at Avon Lake High School in Cleveland, Ohio, are required to study music. The school has just put on a performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria with full orchestra and 154 singers. All is […]

The Czech violinist Pavel Šporcl was playing the Mendelssohn concerto with the Mlada Boleslav Chamber Orchestra when a sideswipe from the conductor’s baton knocked his precious blue violin out of his hands. Only a swift […]

We have been notified of the passing of Christopher Keyte, a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, who made more than fifty solo recordings and appeared in leading roles at Covent Garden and elsewhere. He […]

The Royal Academy of Music in London has appointed violinist Hilary Hahn as Visiting Professor. It probably won’t take up much of her time. Hahn, 44, is also the Juilliard School’s Visiting Artist in the […]

Czech media are respectfully noting the death of Ludek  Golat, former head of the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre. He was 70. Golat was fired in 2009 after he threw a salami at a singer’s face, knocking […]

This can’t be what he learned at Curtis. The masterclass student here is Van Cliburn finalist Clayton Stephenson.     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Julian (@schumannop.44) The post Lang […]