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Winners of the 2025 Aga Khan Music Awards announced

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer appears on BBC Radio 3's Private Passions

Élisabeth Pion wins 2025 Honens International Piano Competition
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Ivors Classical Awards 2025 names 34 nominees
The composers and librettists will compete in six categories with the winners announced at BFI Southbank on 11 November

Pekka Kuusisto named chief conductor of Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Shelley named new principal conductor of National Symphony Orchestra Ireland

Ronnie Scott's launches new music venue and first-ever weekly classical night

BBC Radio 3 Unwind launches on DAB+
BBC Radio 3 Unwind, billed as 'Classical Music to Unwind Your Mind', launches on DAB+, alongside BBC Radio 1 Dance and BBC Radio 1 Anthems

John Storgårds named music director of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra
The Finnish conductor takes up his new role at the beginning of the 2026-27 season

Poiesis Quartet storm to Banff glory
The Cincinnati-based quartet triumphed after a string of extraordinary performances of works by Brahms, Beethoven and Bartók

Alison Balsom reveals she will retire after the 2025 Proms
The multi-award-winning trumpeter revealed she will hang up her trumpet after the 2025 BBC Proms... and also hinted at what's next for her

This beautiful cat has a completely brilliant response to music
Take one black cat. Add Mahler's hyper-emotional Ninth Symphony. Result: well, see for yourself...

Today at the BBC Proms: it's The Traitors!
Tonight the BBC Proms is filled with the suspenseful soundworld of The Traitors

Today at the BBC Proms: one of the most iconic beginnings in all of music
Today at the BBC Proms, it's one of music's most powerful and unforgettable works... along with two colourful depictions of travel to exotic lands

Today at the BBC Proms: a radiant, passionate Romantic masterpiece
Today's BBC Proms concert features one of the best loved works in the repertoire... plus a new piece inspired by an African folk tale where brain outwits brawn

Today at the BBC Proms: the most remarkable musician you’ve (probably) never heard of
It's French night at the BBC Proms - which means we hear from one of classical music's most intriguing talents

Today at the Proms: it's the original Gothic symphony
Today at the BBC Proms we get a performance of one of classical music's most darkly dramatic, surreal and sinister masterpieces

Today's spooky BBC Proms concert features a tribute to our greatest ghost story writer
Today at the BBC Proms, it's Mahler's eeriest work - plus a brand new piece inspired by the ghost stories of the incomparable M.R. James

Today at the BBC Proms: a truly unique pianist who's defied all the odds
Tonight's BBC Proms concert features a pianist who's conquered adversity - plus one of the 20th century's most gripping works

Today at the BBC Proms: it's Samara Joy!
Acclaimed jazz vocalist Samara Joy lights up the BBC Proms tonight, singing songs from the Great American Songbook and more

Why Samara Joy might be the future of jazz
Samara Joy is the velvet-voiced jazz star bringing timeless jazz standards to new audience — and winning Grammys while doing it

The Gilded Age is one of the best things on TV right now. And its music plays a key role
A sumptuous drama of ambition, class, and culture, The Gilded Age strikes a powerful chord with modern audiences. And music plays a vital role

Fourth of July songs: nine rousing tunes for Independence Day
From Bernstein to Sousa, we celebrate the Fourth of July with a run-through of nine of the most rousing pieces of American music
