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BBC Young Composer 2021 winners announced

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Erland Cooper and Daniel Pioro travel to Orkney to bury only copy of new album inspired by poet George Mackay Brown

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Kazakhstani pianist Alim Beisembayev wins 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition

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Leeds International Piano Competition announces ten semi-finalists from nine countries

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Tenor Stuart Skelton creates Last Night of the Proms cocktail to toast the end of the season

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Ensemble Molière announced as BBC’s first New Generation Baroque Ensemble

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BBC Radio 3 asks amateur composers to write a tune to a Christina Rossetti poem for this year’s Breakfast Christmas Carol Competition

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RPS Awards launch first ever public vote in award for non-professional ensembles

Andrew Lloyd Webber recording session with an 80 piece orchestra at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. April 2021

Andrew Lloyd Webber to release album of orchestral arrangements of his musicals

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Emerson String Quartet to retire in 2023

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Last Night of the Proms programme announced, with additional screening of the concert in Coventry

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Iván Fischer receives Covid-19 vaccine while conducting on stage

Vilde Frang to now play the 1734 'Rode' Guarneri del Gesù violin

Vilde Frang to now play the 1734 ‘Rode’ Guarneri del Gesù violin

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Vladimir Jurowski awarded Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal

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Aurora Orchestra to host immersive concert at Printworks London