classical music

Royal Opera House stream – Spotlight on .. The Royal Opera House has a new series exclusive dedicated to insights into the lives and careers of Royal Ballet Principal dancers, with exclusive interviews, behind the scenes rehearsal footage, and […]

Dear Alma, A close and trusted friend who is a professional musician invited me to write a short chamber piece for his ensemble. I agreed to write it for no fee if the concert was […]

The Red – Original theatre Click here for tickets Marcus Brigstocke is best known for his stand-up comedy and as a regular performer and writer on BBC Radio 4  so it’s somewhat surprising to find […]

Watch this from the current Verbier season. She’s Swiss, 19 years old, from Lausanne. The post Not the soloist, watch the cello appeared first on Slippedisc.

The University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music has awarded Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music to Seth Parker Woods. He writes: This honor comes as a total surprise when I got […]

Conductor Oksana Lyniv welcomes her Youth Orchestra of Ukraine: Every coming together is so precious for us! Here is the moment then the bus finally arrived from Lviv, Ukraine making 55 hours trip. Many of […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: If it’s summer music you’re after, it doesn’t come much sunnier than this. Castelnuovo-Tedesco – it translates as Newcastle German – was a Florentine who traced his lineage […]

Violinist Chris Wu has retired from the orchestra after 36 years. In a parting interview with the Post-Gazette, he makes caustic comments about life in the orchestra. Unfortunately, the headlines are all we can see […]