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Friday, 9 October 2026

Music in anxious times: Hatfield House Music Festival opens with a captivating evening of music from the time the house first opened

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Musicians preparing for the opening concert of Hatfield House Music Festival under the watchful eye of Queen Elizabeth I in the Marble Hall ...
Thursday, 8 October 2026

Celebrating John Joubert at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in advance of his 2027 centenary

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John Joubert [photo: Graham Boulton] Next year is the centenary of Birmingham’s pre-eminent composer John Joubert (1927-2019). Born in South...
Wednesday, 7 October 2026

O’Hare Music Centre, Britten Pears Arts’ new hub for music education, participation and artist development

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Students on the Advanced Young Musicians Programme [Photo: Britten Pears Arts] Britten Pears Arts’ O’Hare Music Centre has opened up in the ...

Emad Zolfaghari is the first viola winner in Windsor Festival International String Competition's history

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First prize winner, Canadian violist Emad Zolfaghari performing at  Windsor Festival International String Competition 2026  [Photo: Julian G...
Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Music in unexpected places: Wimbledon International Music Festival returns for the second festival under artistic director Anthony Friend

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Wimbledon International Music Festival returns next month with 26 events on offer from 7 to 29 November 2026. This year's festival, the ...

A sustained & compelling sense of atmosphere: Alex Mills & Anna Blom's Reverence at Brompton Cemetery Chapel

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Anna Blom & Alex Mills: Reverence - Brompton Cemetery Chapel Alex Mills is a composer for whom music and the visual arts are intertwine...

When Does Georgian Music Stop Being “Georgian Music”?

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U.S. premiere of Vaja Azarashvili’s Cello Concerto at Merkin Hall in New York, featuring Sandro Sidamonidze as soloist with Orchestra for P...
Monday, 5 October 2026

To convey the true impact required depths only artistic responses could provide: David Önaç on how his Atlantic Requiem aims to memorialise the lost lives of enslaved Africans

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David Önaç How Lloyd’s insurance contracts from the transatlantic slave trade became the unlikely inspiration for a new choral work for the ...

Bach & Blood: a choral version of Bach's Chaconne, Pärt's Magnificat Antiphons for strings, & David Fenessy meditating on Hildegard & blood

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David Fenessy: Blood - Jonathan Morton, Scottish Ensemble, Chamber Choir of NYCOS, Christopher Bell (Photo: Ed Maitland-Smith) Bach & B...

Part travelogue, part musical exploration, part poetic meditation: Blair Coron's film Woven Ground

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Blair Coron Blair Coron is a musician and poet from Springfield, a small village in Fife, Scotland. His quiet and intimate music blends mod...
Saturday, 3 October 2026

Why compose? After a career in film & TV, composer Gavin Greenaway is developing his own voice with Skylines, the new album from his Cloud Chamber duo with Caroline Dale

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Cloud Chamber: Gavin Greenaway & Caroline Dale (Photo: ottantotto) Cloud Chamber is the newly formed duo of Gavin Greenaway (piano) an...
Friday, 2 October 2026

How does a composer disappear from history? And what does it take to bring her back?

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French composer Charlotte Sohy (1887-1955) was the daughter of an industrialist. Her early teachers included a pupil (and relation) of Cesar...

Challenging genius: The Yellow Tie tells the dramatic story of Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache's rise to fame in a film written & directed by his son

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The Yellow Tie - Ben Schnetzer (Sergiu Celibidache) - director: Serge Ioan Celibidache, Oblique Media The Yellow Tie ; Ben Schnetzer, John ...
Wednesday, 30 September 2026

It's coming home! Elgar collection of New Jersey businessman Arthur Reynolds donated to the Hallé

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Piano Quintet . Manuscript dated January 21, 1919, of passages and queries about the work, consisting of questions from Elgar addressed to H...

Beyond Coppélia and Lakmé: Bru Zane to release premiere recording of Delibes's Jean de Nivelle

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Léo Delibes in 1875 If you say the name of composer Léo Delibes, then people will immediately think of his ballet, Coppélia, and opera, Lak...

War, politics, love, & brotherhood: Kieran Rayner & Gamal Khamis's What If? at the Bloomsbury Festival allows the audience to decide the narrative

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Baritone Kieran Rayner and pianist Gamal Khamis have created a recital programme,  What If?, that explores the World War I through song inc...
Tuesday, 29 September 2026

Following its centenary celebrations last year, the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra becomes resident at Brighton Dome

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Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, music director Joanna MacGregor The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, music director Joanna MacGregor, opene...

The Continuo Foundation awards £108,000 in its 12th round of grants

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The Continuo Foundation recently announced its 12th round of grants, awarding £105,000 to 28 Early Music Projects, supporting 68 concerts in...

Bass Brindley Sherratt to be artistic director of The Grange Festival following Michael Chance's retirement

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Brindley Sherratt (Photo: Film and Star) The Grange Festival (which is based at The Grange, Northington in Hampshire) has announced that the...
Monday, 28 September 2026

Recorder player Tabea Debus joins York Early Music Festival as guest artistic advisor

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Tabea Debus (Photo: Kaupo Kikkas) Recorder player extraordinare Tabea Debus is joining York Early Music Festival as guest artistic advisor. ...

Collaborative music & art residency: Burgh House & Chamber Studio join forces with The Cosman Keller Art & Music Trust

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Trio Musae A new partnership between Burgh House , in Hampstead, and Chamber Studio will create a residency programme for emerging chamber ...

A fresh take: youthful Daniel Dorn releases his debut album of Bach's Cello Suites in May 2027

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The young German-American cellist Daniel Dorn (born 2008) has just started studying at the Royal Academy of Music with Guy Johnston. He beg...
Sunday, 27 September 2026

Britten's War Requiem: Edward Gardner takes an uncompromising & severe view softened by the poetic attention to the words from soloists in London Philharmonic Orchestra's season opener

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Britten: War Requiem - Edward Gardner, Benjamin Appl, Paul Appleby London Philharmonic Orchestra (Photo: Andy Paradise) Britten: War Requie...