Friends and colleagues of the well-liked London clarinettist, who died on Wednesday, are invited to a secular ceremony at his daughter’s house this coming Friday.

Toby Spence was supposed to stand in for the German star in Berlin’s Dream of Gerontius tonight. But it appears he has also pulled out.

The the Donaueschingen Festival, second only to Darmstadt as a fortress of the postwar avant-garde, has invited the British conservative philosopher Roger Scruton to give

No they don’t. Turns out it was prerecorded. Seventy of the orchestra’s musicians hustled onto the field and into their positions at the 50-yard line

This is Martin Wray, viola player of the Dulcinea Quartet. At the end of a tour of Japan, he was flying with quartet’s 1st violinist

Arts Council England’s (ACE) has decided to impose a new system for evaluating art quality on National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs), its main clients. Despite protests

You will have read over the past few days that four US orchestras are out of contact and one of them has forced its musicians

The London-based Russian pianist Pavel Kalesnikov, winner of the 2012 Honens Prize and a BBC New Generation Artist, has taken to his blog to excoriate