The Taiwan-Australian violinist features on the soundtrack of the movie of my first novel, which opens in the US on December 25. The recording has

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an interesting, unsigned piece on the benefits (questionable, in our view) of orchestra touring. The Pittsburgh SO comes to Europe every

After a spruce-up costing  3.8 million euros, the house where Beethoven was born is now reopened to visitors. The Bonn concerthall, on the other hand,

Symphony Nova Scotia has appointed the New Zealander Holly Mathieson, 38, as its music director, starting next month. Mathieson, who lives in Scotland, co-directs the

Musicians and critics are outdoing one another in superlatives over the Berlin conductor’s performances this week with the Israel Phil. Amir Mandel, in Haaretz, calls

Michael Francis, the LSO doublebass who became a condcutor by stepping in for Valery Gergiev when he missed rehearsals, has taken US citizenship as a

Anna Netrebko’s claim yesterday that she was never going to rehearse six weeks again for an opera drew howls of mirth from some of our

Jan Raes is leaving next week after 11 years as general director and a catastrophic mishandling of the Daniele Gatti affair. The orchestra has had

The convicted sex pest and former Munich conservatory chief Siegfried Mauser has given a self-pitying interview to Die Welt while waiting to go to jail