classical music

By our roving New York critic Susan Hall:   Maestra, a lively documentary film by Maggie Contreras, opens in the United States this week. The film follows five contestants in the second biennial Maestra competition […]

All middle-school students at Avon Lake High School in Cleveland, Ohio, are required to study music. The school has just put on a performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria with full orchestra and 154 singers. All is […]

The Czech violinist Pavel Šporcl was playing the Mendelssohn concerto with the Mlada Boleslav Chamber Orchestra when a sideswipe from the conductor’s baton knocked his precious blue violin out of his hands. Only a swift […]

We have been notified of the passing of Christopher Keyte, a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, who made more than fifty solo recordings and appeared in leading roles at Covent Garden and elsewhere. He […]

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 […]

Czech media are respectfully noting the death of Ludek  Golat, former head of the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre. He was 70. Golat was fired in 2009 after he threw a salami at a singer’s face, knocking […]

This can’t be what he learned at Curtis. The masterclass student here is Van Cliburn finalist Clayton Stephenson.     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Julian (@schumannop.44) The post Lang […]

The paper has published four letters from readers who refuse to attend concert where phones and photography are permitted. One is from the music critic and Tippett authority Meirion Bowen. The case for permitting phones, […]

Greek National Opera is offering 1,500 free seats to unemployed people for the dress rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ this Friday night at 9pm. The show is being staged at the Herodes Atticus Odeon in […]

The long-serving head of music at Bishop’s Stortford College in Hertfordshire has been banned for life from teaching after a tribunal found him guilty of touching boys for sexual gratification. Andrew Bruce, 64, taught at […]