Daniel Barkley was a young Irish composer whose life ended on January 11. Here is his final blog. His family write: Danny was a beautiful and

The death is reported of Deen Larsen, 74, founder of the Franz Schubert Institut in Baden. An American who moved to Austria in 1973, he was

Gabor Kali, 35 and 1st Kapellmeister in Nuremberg, was declared winner of the first Hong Kong conducting competition. He takes away close to US$20,000 and

Mathieu Gallet, president of Radio France, was given a one-year suspended sentence today and a 20,000 Euros fine for exercising favouritism in his previous job

Newly available in paperback from Joshua Tree Publishing in Chicago.

The promising Rory Macdonald, 37, has dumped his agent, Intermusica, for acquisitive IMG. A former assistant to Ivan Fischer and Mark Elder, Macdonald has a

IMG has announced that it has quietly staged a touring performance of Shadowland in Riyadh last month. They claim this as: – The First Performance

We have received sad news of the death yesterday of Paul Dunkel, brilliant flute player, co-founder of the American Composers Orchestra and all-round live-wire. After

The Met launched its much-substituted Tosca at New Year’s. Vienna rolled out its new cast last week. Tonight, it’s Covent Garden’s turn with Adrianne Pieczonka, Joseph

AskonasHolt have signed Fatma Said, an Egyptian soprano who has come up through Berlin’s Hanns Eisler Hochschule and the singing academy at La Scala. She’s

The list of contenders for this year’s competition was published this morning. There is not a single UK player at either senior or junior level.