The Georgian-Russian music conductor Vakhtang Machavariani, head of the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra in Tbilisi since 1996, has died at the age of 74. In 1990 he created the Soviet Festival Orchestra while also conducting […]
Italian state radio reports that the renowned trumpet player Sergio Orlandi, 60, has been attacked and beaten as he approached his car by a 14 year-old student he had excluded from his class. The incident […]
The former Tory MP David Warburton, found dead in his Chelsea home, had early hopes of being a composer. He receoived a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, studying with Edwin Roxburgh, Jeremy Dale Roberts […]