Watch: Robot plays cello solo with orchestra

Further to our report in cracks in the Voices Foundation, which helps improve singing in  schools, we now understand from the charity’s annual report that it is to be shut down. At the end of […]

Frankfurt’s young General Music Director Thomas Guggeis conducted his first Parsifal last night. He is 31. The director, Brigitte Fassbender, was also staging her first Parsifal. She’s 85. It went pretty well, by all accounts. […]

The UK-raised conductor Sarah Ioannides has decided to leave Symphony Tacoma, in Washington state, after 12 years in charge.  She will depart next year. Ioannides, 52, was previously music director of the El Paso Symphony […]