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Today's unmissable BBC Prom: Britten, Elgar and a former BBC Young Musician of the Year
Here's your brief guide to the BBC Proms concert taking place at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday, 26 July 2024, featuring Britten, Elgar, and the brilliant cellist Laura van der Heijden
Today at the BBC Proms: soprano Alice Coote and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Brahms, Schoenberg and Mahler
Your guide to the action at the BBC Proms today, Thursday 25 July - featuring Brahms, Mahler and Schoenberg
John Eliot Gardiner steps down from Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras
Following a reported assault in August 2023, the acclaimed conductor has stepped back from public music-making, but has said that he will not be retiring
24-year-old Tarmo Peltokoski named Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra music director
The young Finnish conductor will become the orchestra’s next music director from the 2026-27 season, succeeding Jaap van Zweden
Was this the face of Mozart? It looks suspiciously like a certain TV star...
Farewell to Sean Rafferty, as BBC Radio 3 announces presenter changes from April 2025
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John Rutter gets knighthood in King's Birthday Honours List 2024
First ever London Soundtrack Festival planned for 2025
Ben and Imo: a guide to the Royal Shakespeare Company play about Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst
'Ben and Imo' began life as a play for BBC Radio 3, but has been reworked for its stage debut with the RSC, outlining the creative relationship between the two composers
50 'William Shakespeares' take part in protest march against axing of Northern Ballet’s live orchestra
The protestors dressed as the famous English playwright in a bid to stop Northern Ballet’s live orchestra being replaced by recorded music for its touring productions
Aigul Akhmetshina: from an isolated village in the Ural Mountains to the Met Opera stage as the youngest ever Carmen
At just 27, Aigul Akhmetshina became the youngest artist ever to take on the role of Bizet's Carmen at both the Royal Opera House and the Metropolitan Opera
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to allow filming of its classical concerts
Aiming to appeal to a younger audience not interested in the 'old rules', the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is to allow audiences to take pictures and film during breaks in its classical concerts
Zarqa Al Yamama: Sarah Connolly stars as Saudi Arabia stages its very first opera
English mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly stars in Saudi Arabia's first homegrown opera, which draws on an ancient Arabic tale of warring tribes. Jeremy Pound investigates
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason signs for Sony Classical
The talented young pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, sister of Sheku, Isata and Braimah, will record a debut featuring Chopin, Debussy and more
2024 BBC Proms lineup announced
90 Proms feature over 3,000 musicians over eight weeks, including star soloists Yo-Yo Ma, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yunchan Lim, Víkingur Ólafsson, Sheku, Braimah and Isata Kanneh-Mason, and weekend festivals in Bristol, Nottingham and Gateshead
Conductor Sir Andrew Davis (1944-2024)
The conductor Sir Andrew Davis was perhaps best known for his recordings of English composers Elgar and Vaughan Williams - but there was also one very memorable Proms performance
Klaus Mäkelä named Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director
The Finnish conductor will begin as the orchestra’s music director designate with immediate effect before beginning a five-year contract as music director in September 2027
Wigmore Hall announces plans to become entirely privately funded
In its new season announcement, Wigmore Hall director John Gilhooly revealed that its Director's Fund aims to reach a target of £10 million by 2027, which will allow the venue to continue without the need for public funding
New research shows surge in mental health concerns among musicians and performing artists since Covid-19
The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine has revealed that its mental health consultations have quadrupled since 2019
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra announces new chief and principal guest conductors
Mark Wigglesworth and Chloé van Soeterstède have been appointed as Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's new chief conductor and principal guest conductor respectively
Composer James MacMillan receives Ivors Academy Fellowship
MacMillan joins a list of 25 Fellows, including John Rutter, John Adams, Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Judith Weir CBE and Sting
RPS Awards celebrate headline-grabbing BBC Singers, the late composer Kaija Saariaho and the first sitarist winner
The RPS Awards – held in Manchester for the first time – celebrate an opera looking at the impact of nuclear power on our world, an opera by the late Kaija Saariaho and an ensemble who nearly faced disbandment last year
Dramatic new changes afoot in the new Radio 3 schedule
Radio 3 has announced a raft of new changes which see some programmes axed, others extended and some moving across from other BBC radio stations