The $100,000+ Polar Music Prize, awarded annually to one highbrow and one mass-market act, has been announced today. The serious winner is the Afghanistan National Institute

Martin Wittenberg, 39, formerly a Leipzig player, has been recruited to join the CAMI office of Doug Sheldon and Stefana Atlas. He has cut his

The St Petersburg Philharmonic will visit Israel for the first time in May to join celebrations for the country’s 70th independence anniversary. Yuri Temirkanov conducts.

Coming next month from DG. This time they remembered the pianist. Both of them.

The Strad has published a hilariously condescending guide to string players on how to relate to the accessory they once called an accompanist. Someone should

A week ago, the Los Angeles Philharmonic rolled out its centenary season, by far the most ambitious, forward looking, socially progressive and egalitarian program the

The home page of Natalia Sheina, who was reported missing yesterday, is filling up with condolence messages. Natalia was 49. We do not yet know

Guido Belgiorno-Nettis and his wife Michelle heard that the 1726 Belgiorno Stradivarius was up for sale. With the proceeds of his late mother’s estate, Guido snapped

Caroline Morton-Hicks was leaving rehearsal at the Pinellas Park Performing Arts Center in Florida when she got into a row with another person in the

German social networks are alive with claims that a senior conductor has been underpaying, insulting and otherwise abusing musicians that he hired for a festival

Françoise Xenakis, a novelist and Télématin journalist, died on February 12 at Courbevoie, her daughter Makhi has announced. She married the Greek avant-gardist in 1953.