The Cliburn Competition has been put back a year to May 2022 as a consequence of the Covid pandemic. It was deemed impossible to hold

The German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will award the Order of Merit to 15 citizens on October 1st. ‘The seven women and eight men have made

There is a death notice in today’s Times for Barry Griffiths, former leader of the BBC Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, and most distinctively, the English

The Polish conductor Krzysztof Urbański, music director in Indiannapolis, has joined Germany’s Tanja Dorn for worldwide management. He was with HarrisonParrott in London until 2017.

Gerald Brinnen, former Principal Bass of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, has died aged 88. (Two weeks ago we lost the LSO’s Rinat Ibragimov). Ken Knussen

The concert hall at Kielce in Poland is today the scene of an international drugs gang trial with 17 defendants on stage – rather, in

The veteran conductor, 84, opening tonight at La Scala, has been sharing some retro views with Corriere della Serra. Among other things: ‘Leave the blacklists

The soprano, recovering from a hospitalisation with Covid, has pulled out of next month’s Il Trovatore in Barcelona, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Rachel Willis-Sørensen jumps

The Cross of Merit of the State of Upper Austria, the region’s highest honour, has been awarded to the conductor Franz Welser-Möst to mark his

A Musicians Union survey of 2,000 members finds that 70% are down to a quarter of their usual work and around half have found work

Jeremy Montagu has died at 92. A fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, he spent much of his life researching the origins and development of musical