Met concertmaster takes job in Taiwan

We hear that Spanish violinst Raquel Areal Martinez has pased her audition and been offered a place in the Berlin Philharmonic. Raquel, 25, from Galicia, is presently a scholar in the orchestra’s Karajan Academy. She […]

Henri Matisse in 60 seconds This Sunday will mark 70 years since the death of the French Modernist artist, Henri Matisse.    His work spanned over half a century and developed from Impressionism to Fauvism and further through Modernism. Matisse […]

In March 1770, the 14-year-old Mozart presented three magnificent arias at a soirée of Count Firmian’s in Milan: this led to his first commission, for an opera seria for one of Italy’s three principal theatres. The resulting […]