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The video games composer Yoko Shimomura has been awarded a BAFTA Fellowship for her contribution to the games industry. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a major player in UK arts and […]

From the Australian edition of the Guardian newspaper: More than 2,000 people in the music industry have signed a petition supporting a jazz musician and composer whose winning entry River to Sea in the 2025 […]

From the Australian edition of the Guardian newspaper: More than 2,000 people in the music industry have signed a petition supporting a jazz musician and composer whose winning entry River to Sea in the 2025 […]

The Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition, among the most prestigious in France, has been won by the Korean pianist Kim Sae-hyun. The 17 year-old played Rachmaninoff’s third concerto in the final with the Orchestra of the Republican Guard, […]

The Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition, among the most prestigious in France, has been won by the Korean pianist Kim Sae-hyun. The 17 year-old played Rachmaninoff’s third concerto in the final with the Orchestra of the Republican Guard, […]

The leading Mexican conductor Enrique Batiz died yesterday in his home country, aged 82. He founded the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra in 1971 and directed it over four decades, except during the 1980s when […]

Responding to Wigmore Hall’s withdrawal from its patronage, Arts Council Enngland’s CEO Darren Henley said this: ‘The idea that we don’t believe in, celebrate, invest in classical music is nonsense. We are here for every […]

The death has been notified of Isaac Chueke, an international  conductor formerly associated with the Teatre San Carlo in Naples. He was long resident in Paris where he founded the Groupe de Recherche Musiques Brésiliennes […]

The passing has been recorded of Vladimir Shcherbakov, tenor  soloist at the Bolshoi from 1977 to 1991. He was 86. His greatest fame came with a recording of the Soviet remake of Glinka’s A Life […]

 Kelli O’Hara Here is a terrific performance of the title song from the great Broadway musical, She Loves Me. It comes from this year’s Broadway Backwards,  the annual one-night-only event produced by Broadway Cares. It celebrates LGBTQ+, […]