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The company needs small change for the very basics: We need your help, now more than ever. Whether it’s £15 to provide our Costume department with a month’s supply of thread or £50 to cover […]

The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts has chosen the cellist and singer Salome Kammer to be head of its music section. Kammer, 65, is the first woman to hold the post since the Academy’s foundation […]

The confusion over cathedral music just deepened. St Alban’s has issued this news: We are delighted to share with you that Oliver Morrell, our Organ Scholar here at St Albans Cathedral, will be moving to […]

We hear the Nashville Symphony is in trouble. Insiders tell us that four vice presidents – Development, Human Resources, Communications and Concert Operations & Production – along with six junior staff members have been laid […]

Introducing a new publication from Oxford Music Press: The Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy Edited by Colin Andrew Lee Explores queer and trans issues in music therapy, an emerging and rapidly evolving […]

The Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez will launch Florez Records in October. The debut release will be zarazuela songs, accompanied by the Peruvian youth otherstra, conductor Ana Maria Patiño-Osorio. Press release below. The multi award […]

We have been informed by people who have spoken to her daughter that the wonderful English soprano April Cantelo has died in Oxfordshire at the age of 96. A pupil of Britten’s associate Joan Cross, […]

The death has been announced of the composer and pianist Sarah Gibson, a member of the piano duet Hocket and a core artist of LA-based Piano Spheres, which commissions and promotes new works for piano. […]

The Manchester orchestra has appointed Emily Davis-Robb as co-leader (concertmaster) alongside Roberto Ruisi. She has been, until now, concertmaster of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in Norway. She says: ‘Thrilled (and very humbled) to share this […]

The former CEO of the Royal Opera House and DG of the BBC today added a new post to his portfolio. He is to be chairman of the National History Museum, a sign that he […]