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In the week that composer Per Nørgård passed away, we are informed of the death of the important conductor Tamás Vetö. He died a week after his 90th birthday. A fugitive from the 1956 Hungarian […]

The body of Edward Grantham was found inside inside his house in Sydney’s Croydon district after a huge fire. Ted, who was 80, was a well-known organist and composer of the opera “Bitter Innocence”. He […]

The verdict is just in from the Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, held over ten days at the Helsinki Music Centre. The winners are: 1st Prize €30,000: Sueye Park 2nd Prize €20,000: Minami Yoshida (Japan) 3rd […]

In partnership with Opera Zuid and Nederlandse Reisopera, Dutch National Opera has developed a new concert experience in a Purcell programme centred around his short opera Dido and Aeneas. This music from more than 300 years […]

Dr Faustus Click here to subscribe 432 years ago this week, on May 30th 1593, a man died in mysterious circumstances. He was Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan dramatist most famous for Doctor Faustus and for his […]

It has been annoucned that the UK-based South African cellist and singer Abel Selaocoe will play a Sunday morning spot at the rock-inconic Glastonbury Festival this summer. He will appear with his Bantu Ensemble with […]

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s new venue is to be known as the Farmer Music Center after $60 million gift from the Farmer Family Foundation. Robert McGrath, CSO President, said: ‘This extraordinary gift … represents a transformative […]

The 2025 Beverly Sills Artist Award, worth $50,000, has been allocated by the Met to US soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen. She has been appearing at the Met sinc e 2014. Next seasib she is due to […]

The Telegraph presents what it claims to be ‘the true face of Ludwig van Beethoven’, reimagined by a Brazilian scholar. Scientists created the first-ever 3D reconstruction of the treasured composer’s head by analysing his skull, […]

The overextended Norwegian conductor has found time to commission a new cello for himself and a violin for his girlfriend Amanda Håoy Horn at an Italian luthier in Florence. Amanda now plays in the Oslo […]