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Christopher McIntire has posted: Valérie Andrée Tessa Chermiset (1973 – 2025) This is the most difficult announcement that I have ever had to compose and one for a completely devastating and unexpected loss. Valérie, Tessa […]

The death has been made known of the long-serving artistic director of leading of the Nash Ensemble, Amelia Freedman. The ensemble reached its 60th anniversary last year and a cornerstone of London’s music scene. Amelia, […]

Ever unpredictable, the Apple Classical Chart which measures streaming stats from around the world has come up with a surprise #1. The full top 100 can be accessed here. 1 Mozart: Violin Concertos Chloe Chua, […]

The Met conductor’s baring his soul on Insta. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Yannick Nézet-Séguin (@nezetseguin) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Yannick Nézet-Séguin (@nezetseguin) The post Yannick’s […]

Looks like the Chinese icon has run out of brands. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lang Lang – 郎朗 (@langlangpiano) The post What Lang Lang wears on US tour appeared first […]

Buon compleanno to the formidable Italian maestro, who turns 84 today. He is the doyen of his guild and he will know better than most that the one to beat is Arturo Toscanini, who retired […]

The Bishop of Fulham has formally apologised for interrupting an evening concert in a London church while in his dressing-gown and ordering the choir and audience to go home. A church statement reads: ‘Bishop Jonathan […]

The US-Italian conductor Carlos Ponti jr. has converted to Orthodox Christianity in order to marry Mariam Sharmanashvili, a zumba teacher, in Tbilisi. Ponti, 56, and Sharmanashvili, 37, performed a ritual Georgian dance at the nuptials. […]

A day before playing both Ravel concertos in one concert with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain, Yuja Wang has pulled out on grounds of ill-health. The concert, at Canada’s Festival de Lanaudière, had been […]

The American mathematician and musical satirist died today at home in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 97. He won renown in the early 1960s for songs that lampooned the US military, the Pope, the […]