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Tuesday, 26 May 2026

Thomas Adès as Principal Guest Conductor, Sir James MacMillan as Featured Composer: The Hallé Orchestra & Kahchun Wong's 2026/27 season

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The Hallé Orchestra's 2026/27 season has a striking focus on contemporary music as well as celebrating both Kahchun Wong's third sea...

A shared encounter between contemporary music & art: Alex Mills's debut album Look How Brightly has a physical manifestation as an exhibition

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Susan Rocklin:  Realm - featured in Look How Brightly at Apsara Studio Composer Alex Mills 's  Look How Brightly  is his debut album on ...

A couple of memorable concerts in this year’s Norfolk & Norwich Festival were delivered by the Britten Sinfonia and Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus.

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Britten: Les Illuminations - Elizabeth Watts & Britten Sinfonia at Kings Place, London (Photo: Shoël Stadlen) Britten: Young Apollo ,...
Monday, 25 May 2026

From the Caribbean to Brazil with a bit of New Orleans on the way... Brixton Chamber Orchestra's Streetband Parade 2026

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Brixton Chamber Orchestra took to the streets yesterday (Sunday 24 May 2026) for their Streetband Parade . The band consisted of brass (inc...
Sunday, 24 May 2026

Leeds is alive with the Sound of Music

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Opera North is at it again, serenading unsuspecting Leeds shoppers with music from their shows. Last year it was Anna Dennis singing the Que...
Saturday, 23 May 2026

Capella Edina: how Luis Schmidt, a young conductor from Munich, came to found Edinburgh's first professional philharmonic orchestra in almost ninety years

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Luis Schmidt & Capella Edina (Photo: Euan Robertson) Luis Schmidt , a conductor from Munich who has just turned 22, founded Capella Ed...
Friday, 22 May 2026

Each song a story to be told: James Newby & Malcolm Martineau's Shipping Forecast at SongEasel in Elephant & Castle

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SongEasel at St Matthew's Church, Elephant & Castle Jocelyn Freeman The Shipping Forecast - Elgar: Sea Pictures , Chabrier, Duparc...

Every detail mattered: Basel Chamber Orchestra & Vilde Frang in Bach, Mendelssohn & Grieg at Wigmore Hall

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Kammerorchester Basel (Photo: Matthias Mueller) Mendelssohn: String Symphonies Nos. 4 & 10 , Bach; Violin concerto in A minor, Violin co...
Wednesday, 20 May 2026

At just 17, pianist Jacky Zhang becomes the youngest ever winner of the Sheepdrove Piano Competition at Newbury Spring Festival

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Jacky Zhang at BBC Young Musician in 2024 In 2024 at just 16 years old, pianist Jacky Zhang reached the final stages of BBC Young Musician w...

Richness & imagination: the all-male ensemble De Profundis continues its exploration of Morales with two masses based on L’homme armé

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Cristóbal de Morales: Missa L’homme armé a4 , Magnificat secundi toni ,  Missa L’homme armé a5 ; De Profundis, Robert Hollingworth; CORO Rev...
Tuesday, 19 May 2026

Curated By… Ben Nobuto: an intimate programme exploring the music, composers and sonic ideas that have influenced his artistic development.

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Ben Nobuto (Photo: Jennifer Hawthorn ) Kings Place’s new Curated By… series places audiences at the centre of a composer’s creative world. ...

From Beethoven & Britten to Caroline Shaw & Gavin Higgins: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's 2026/27 season will be chief conductor Domingo Hindoyan's sixth

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Domingo Hindoyan (Photo: Gareth Jones) The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's 2026/27 will be Dom...

Unashamedly romantic with an expressive use of dissonance & sophisticated atmosphere: the music of the remarkably youthful Christopher Churcher on Resonus Classics

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Moonrise : music by Christopher Churcher; Somerville College Choir, Oxford, Will Dawes; Resonus Classics Reviewed 12 May 2026 Music by the ...
Monday, 18 May 2026

Brass to the fore: this year's Cumnock Tryst is a tribute to the late Scottish trumpeter John Wallace & a celebration of the tradition of brass band music in the Ayrshire coalfields

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The cooperation band Sir James MacMillan's Cumnock Tryst returns with its twelfth festival, running from 1 to 4 October 2026, the festiv...

Meditations on life, death and Taoist wisdom: Phelim McDermott & Philip Glass's Tao of Glass, @sohoplace theatre

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Phelim McDermott & Philip Glass: Tao of Glass - @sohoplace theatre Director Phelim McDermott and composer Philip Glass have collaborate...

A new interdisciplinary research programme for composers, performers, scholars and practitioners

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FACT FICTION , a new interdisciplinary research programme has been launched led by composer Alastair White . Aimed at composers, performers,...
Saturday, 16 May 2026

Rising to the challenge: Britten's The Rape of Lucretia from Royal Academy Opera directed by Paul Carr & conducted by Lada Valesova

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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia - Ellie Donald, Ella Orehek-Coddington, Pasel Basov, Viktoria Melkonian - Royal Academy Opera (Photo: Craig ...

A mix of everything: The Celtic Tenors' eclectic repertoire with harmony-driven music sung by classically trained voices

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The Celtic Tenors (George Hutton, Daryl Simpson, Matthew Gilsenan) The Celtic Tenors is an Irish trio comprising singers Matthew Gilsenan ,...
Friday, 15 May 2026

Sheer joy & plenty of welly: the marimbas of The Wave Quartet join the Academy of Ancient Music for Bach concertos & more

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Rhythm Across Time    -  Bach:  Concerto in A minor for four harpsichords, BWV1065, Concerto in C major for two harpsichords, BWV1061 , Bert...
Thursday, 14 May 2026

New opera, electronic music, celebrating John Barry, cross-genre works: Guildhall School's Making It Festival returns

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Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s Making It Festival returns from 8 to 26 June 2026: a three-week celebration of new, original work ma...

Mendelssohn’s heroic work Elijah stands upright and proud as a great choral masterpiece equating to that of Handel’s Messiah and soon to be heard in Suffolk

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Leslie Olive rehearsing the Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra in St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds (Photo: Bill Hiskett) Mendelssohn...
Wednesday, 13 May 2026

Richness & austerity: music by Morales & Vivanco alongside Kerensa Briggs & James MacMillan's settings of John Henry Newman in The Sixteen's 2026 Choral Pilgrimage

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Kerensa Briggs & Harry Christophers at the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich  (Photo: The Sixteen ) Lead Kindly Light:  Christob...

The UK premiere of Du Yun's Angel's Bone: photo essay

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Angel's Bone by Du Yun and Royce Vavrek English National Opera at Aviva Studios, Manchester   Du Yun: Angel's Bone - English Na...