First prize winner, Canadian violist Emad Zolfaghari performing at Windsor Festival International String Competition 2026 [Photo: Julian Guidera] This year’s Windsor Festival International String Competition celebrated its 10th anniversary and, for the first time, the final on […]
Wimbledon International Music Festival returns next month with 26 events on offer from 7 to 29 November 2026. This year’s festival, the 18th, is the second festival under the artistic directorship of Anthony Friend who […]
Anna Blom & Alex Mills: Reverence – Brompton Cemetery Chapel Alex Mills is a composer for whom music and the visual arts are intertwined. Earlier this year, alongside his debut album Look How Brightly, he co-curated […]
U.S. premiere of Vaja Azarashvili’s Cello Concerto at Merkin Hall in New York, featuring Sandro Sidamonidze as soloist with Orchestra for People and conductor Hahnsol Kim (Photo: Matthew Holler) Cellist Sandro Sidamonidze on a musical […]
David Önaç How Lloyd’s insurance contracts from the transatlantic slave trade became the unlikely inspiration for a new choral work for the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and BBC Singers. Composer David Önaç explains his Atlantic […]
David Fenessy: Blood – Jonathan Morton, Scottish Ensemble, Chamber Choir of NYCOS, Christopher Bell (Photo: Ed Maitland-Smith) Bach & Blood: Bach, Arvo Pärt, David Fenessy; Jonathan Morton, Scottish Ensemble, Chamber Choir of the National Youth Choir […]
Blair Coron Blair Coron is a musician and poet from Springfield, a small village in Fife, Scotland. His quiet and intimate music blends modern classical, storytelling and traditional melodies, with themes of nature, people, time […]
This is a great opportunity to enjoy a terrifically inventive production of Tannhäuser from Tobias Kratzer, staged at the Wagner shrine of Bayreuth in 2019. From the off, it is clear this is no ordinary […]
Cloud Chamber: Gavin Greenaway & Caroline Dale (Photo: ottantotto) Cloud Chamber is the newly formed duo of Gavin Greenaway (piano) and Caroline Dale (cello), internationally renowned performers whose careers span film and concert music. As […]
This is a repost, to prepare the way for my upcoming post on Hans Werner Henze’s opera, Das verratene Meer. Contemporary music can seem forbidding. Back in the late twentieth century, the names of Pierre […]
