Sheku Kanneh-Mason, 17, from Nottingham, was named winner of BBC Young Musician 2016. Bio: Sheku attends Trinity Catholic Comprehensive School in Nottingham. He began playing the

The Georgian bass Paata Burchuladze, 61, has confirmed he is cancelling international performances for the next year in order to run in national elections this

We hear that the board of l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva has parted company with Jean-Pierre Rousseau, its stand-in manager for the past two

Herbert Blomstedt, 88, has been named Honorary Conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle. He is only the second conductor, after Sir Colin Davis, to be awarded

A bunch of finance and legal guys in New York have put together an Adolf Busch Award, named after the anti-Nazi violinist and conductor, one

Jane Ede, principal singer with Opera Australia, read Julian Gavin’s story of his brain injury on Slipped Disc and immediately set up a funding site for

The French Ambassador to the Ukraine, Isabelle Dumont, has been seen playing in the cello section of the Kharkiv Regional Philharmonic, an act of pure

It’s not often we find ourselves on the same side of the barricades with Julian Lloyd Webber on two consecutive major issues but – as

The Swedish wunderkind Daniel Lozakovich, 15, has won first prize at the international Spivakov competition in Ufa. Joint second were Agnes Langer, 23, from Hungary and Mai