There were three woman candidates in the last 14. Now they are down to seven in the quarter-finals: Kah Chun Wong, Keitaro Harada, Sergey Neller, Paolo

Off-topic, except for Londoners, for whom this picture may prove iconic. The first Moslem Mayor of London chose as his first official engagement a Holocaust

Hours after Ali Rahbari’s departure, the Roudaki Foundation that runs the Tehran Symphony Orchestra named a new chief conductor, Shahrdad Rohani. The name is unfamiliar to

Renowned for his synthesizer versions of classical works,  Isao Tomita died on May 5, aged 84. Tomita earned his greatest success with a 1974 album, Snowflakes Are

The Tehran Symphony Orchestra’s contract talks with its employer, the Roudaki Foundation, have now collapsed altogether and its music director Ali Alexander Rahbari is leaving

Members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra gave a free downtown concert to protest at the city’s decimation of the group’s subsidy. Cuts, announced last week,

Concertmaster Holly Mulcahy is having spring worries about her working kit.   A few months back I unthinkingly tried playing a $4 million violin along

There is a concert of Carmina Burana tonight at Kuala Lumpur but it may not take place. A group of five international schools under British