The RTE put out this statement late last night: It is with the deepest regret that we announce that conductor David Heusel has passed away

An unnamed teacher has been arrested in Orange County, California, after bodily fluids were allegedly found in flutes that were handed out to students in

Hossein Pishkar, 29, came top in the international Deutsche Dirigentenpreis in Cologne, winning 20,000 Euros and some TV attention. Second was a German, Dominik Beykirch. A

Richard Morrison, chief critic of the Times, on English National Opera’s new Aida: The show’s musical qualities are fatally impaired, however, by the conductor Keri-Lynn

A message from Emma Dunch, the SSO’s incoming Chief Executive Officer. “As the incoming Chief Executive Officer of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra next January and

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: What did Alexander Scriabin have in common with Donald J. Trump? Small hands, that’s what.  Scriabin’s 1897 piano

The Venezuelan-born Carlos Izcaray, music director of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, has been talking of his secret struggle this past year with a rare blood

Australia’s best-funded orchestra put out a horribly equivocal statement last week on the Government’s Same-Sex marriage survey. It didn’t need to say anything, but facing

Basia Jaworski informs us of the death of Pieter Vis, a prolific concert singer and larger-than-life personality on the Dutch music scene. Pieter suffered a

The musician closest to the Russian president talks about their relationship to the state news agency, Tass. As you’d expect, he’s full of praise for Putin’s