We hear the Nashville Symphony is in trouble. Insiders tell us that four vice presidents – Development, Human Resources, Communications and Concert Operations & Production – along with six junior staff members have been laid […]

Introducing a new publication from Oxford Music Press: The Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy Edited by Colin Andrew Lee Explores queer and trans issues in music therapy, an emerging and rapidly evolving […]

The Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez will launch Florez Records in October. The debut release will be zarazuela songs, accompanied by the Peruvian youth otherstra, conductor Ana Maria Patiño-Osorio. Press release below. The multi award […]

We have been informed by people who have spoken to her daughter that the wonderful English soprano April Cantelo has died in Oxfordshire at the age of 96. A pupil of Britten’s associate Joan Cross, […]

The death has been announced of the composer and pianist Sarah Gibson, a member of the piano duet Hocket and a core artist of LA-based Piano Spheres, which commissions and promotes new works for piano. […]

The Manchester orchestra has appointed Emily Davis-Robb as co-leader (concertmaster) alongside Roberto Ruisi. She has been, until now, concertmaster of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in Norway. She says: ‘Thrilled (and very humbled) to share this […]

The former CEO of the Royal Opera House and DG of the BBC today added a new post to his portfolio. He is to be chairman of the National History Museum, a sign that he […]

The death has been recorded in Richmond, California, of Douglass Fake, who produced some 700 albums of movie music on his label, Intrada. Among his exhumations were the uncut score of Leonard Bernstein’s On the […]

The former head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Alexander Kibovsky, has been arrested and charged with bribery and fraud. He faces up to ten years jail. As in all such cases in Russia at […]

National Theatre’s Live 100th Show  Click here to watch More than 11 million people have watched a National Theatre Live performance since April 23 2009. That was the first time audiences in cinemas throughout the world […]