Zlatomir Fung, 20, was tonight declared winner of the Tchaikovsky cello competition. Second was the Colombian Santiago Cañón Valencia. Third was the Russian Anastasia Kobekina.

Professor Boris Kushnir’s pupil Sergei Dogadin won first prize in the violin section of the Tchaikovsky Competition, as he has done in every contest where

Alexandre Kantorow, 22, has been declared winner of the major prize of the Tchaikovsky Competition. He has a Russian teacher, Rena Shereshevskaya, and he impressed

This was the soloist’s response to the Russian announcement in the calamity that ruined his chances in the piano final. An Tianxu didn’t realise that

The rent-boy lover of a Scottish musician in Argentina was jailed ‘in perpetuity’ today for bashing his head in with a dumbbell. Alan Torres was

The board of the orchestra that has locked out its musicians has responded to an international outcry with its first concession: Baltimore, MD Thursday, June

Message received:   For the second year running, UK record label Drama Musica and its partner project DONNE, Women in Music examined the programmes presented

The Estonian conductor Kristiina Poska has switched from Nordic Artists to HarrisonParrott in London for global management. Poska, 40, recently conducted Merry Widow at English

A short clip of the Chinese pianist An Tainxu being made to play the wrong concerto in his final round at the Tchaikovsky Competition is

Artists at the Czech National Theatre who are fighting the introduction of a Norwegian artistic director have promised to wear white ribbons at this week’s

We have been notified of the death of  Peter Westergaard, former chair of the music department at Princeton and a gentle champion of post-Babbitt modernism.