Sara Teasdale. Photograph by Gerhard Sisters, ca. 1910 Missouri History Museum Photograph and Print Collection The Life and Loves of Sarah Teasdale; Kristin Dauphinais, Nigel Foster; London Song Festival at Hinde Street Methodist ChurchReviewed 14 […]
Amelia Clarkson The Rain Keeps Coming by Northern Irish composer Amelia Clarkson was premiered by the Ulster Orchestra at the Ulster Hall in Belfast on 10 October 2025. The work explores cycles of personal renewal […]
BIG – designs for Hamburg State Opera, renders by Yanis Amasri (images: BIG) Hamburg State Opera is on the move, or at least plans to be. The architecture studio BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) has unveiled […]
The Sixteen has announced a new strand to its Learning & Participation programme which seeks to support young singers in finding a pathway into choral music. The Sixteen Ignite features a new Academy, an extension […]
Agnes Baltsa, Lifetime Achievement Award winner International Opera Awards 2025 – (Photo: GNO/Simopoulos) ‘Tis the season for awards. Hot on the heels of the Ivors Classical Awards [see my article] comes the International Opera Awards […]
Thibaut Garcia, Continuing the legacy of the brilliant and pioneering British classical guitarist, Julian Bream, the equally brilliant French-born classical guitarist, Thibaut Garcia, joins forces with the award-winning ensemble, Quatuor Arod, to perform the world […]
Jonathan Dove and April de Angelis, winners of the Award for Best Community and Participation Composition at The Ivors Classical Awards [Photo: Hogan Media – Shutterstock] Last night, 11 November, The Ivors Academy presented awards […]
Lighten mine eies – William Lawes: selected psalms & harp consorts; Ensemble Près de votre oreille, Robin Pharo; Harmonia MundiReviewed 11 November 2025 For their debut on Harmonia Mundi, the young French ensemble give us a […]
The National Youth Orchestra (NYO) launches 2026 with Shimmer, a three-date tour where the orchestra will be conducted by Alexandre Bloch in a programme with a distinctly Spanish theme. The evening begins with Debussy’s Ibéria and ends with […]
It is now moderately well-known that the great scientist Galileo Galilei’s father, Vincenzo was a fine musician and there have been music and music theatre projects linking the two such as Clare Norburn’s Galileo which […]
