La Phil calls off concerts amid civil unrest

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: It’s 30 years since I heard Gyorgy Ligeti explain why he was allowing his first string quartet to be performed after four decades lying in a drawer. The […]

Ilia Papoian, who came third at the last Tchaikovsky Competition, is happy to speak truth to power when he gets the chance: “It is an enormous honor for me to perform before the president in […]

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 […]