A COVID-19 cluster at the Verbier Festival has left musicians in isolation and led to changes in the program of the Verbier Festival Orchestra's (VFO) first concert with conductor Valery Gergiev next ...

27-year-old violinist Stella Chen is building an international reputation as an emerging young concert artist of outstanding potential. She will also this year be honored as a recipient of a 2020 ...

New York’s Carnegie Hall has this week announced the 106 young musicians selected to take part in the sixth annual 2018 National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. "The musicians who ...

Born in Riga, Latvia, David Fetler came into a family of musicians — the “Fetler Family Band” performed concerts within Latvia and throughout Europe in the 1930s. Fetler began conducting at the age of ...

Founded in 1995 at Germany’s University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, the International Louis Spohr Competition offers young musicians the opportunity to perform on a world stage to international ...

SHANGHAI, CHINA - 29 year old Mayu Kishima, from Japan has just minutes been awarded 1st prize at the 2016 inaugural Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition, in Shanghai, China. 2nd ...

Biddulph Recordings have released a new disc that presents historical recordings of the six violin sonatas of Carl Maria von Weber performed by violinist Arnold Steinhardt and pianist Seymour Lipkin.

Laing will join the Partridge String Quartet in the initiative — whose program was extended to 2023 after their 2020-21 participation was disrupted by the events of COVID-19. Established in 2015, ...

Conductor Eckart Preu Preu's initial three-year contract with the Portland Symphony began when he was brought in to replace Robert Moody. However, the vast majority of his time with the orchestra so ...

The Royal Northern College of Music, in Manchester has today announced the appointment of Norwegian virtuoso Henning Kraggerud to the position of 'International Chair of Violin'. “When the RNCM asked ...

Dedicated to his parents, Corigliano’s sonata was written in 1962-63 and won the 1964 Festival of Two Worlds prize for chamber music. While mostly tonal, the work includes non-tonal and poly-tonal ...

A new poll, conducted by Britain's Classic FM radio station, has found that soundtracks to video games are successfully bringing younger generations to classical music. The annual 'Hall of Fame' ...