I have lost patience with the sector’s talk of diversity when it refuses to acknowledge those people who can’t afford to keep playing, says conductor and composer Robert Ames

Tragically, Professor Jason Arday has died after a vicious and deeply personal campaign of press attacks over the last few weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the culture and b...

Peers from across the political spectrum raised concerns about the Government’s proposed reforms to level 3 music qualifications, with ministers confirming that existing qualifications will remain in place until at least 2030 and announcing a new creative advisory board to help shape the reforms.

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Celebrating Carl Loewe, a day of Spanish Song & composer Emily Hazrati in residence: SongEasel's weekend of Sweet Harmony

A new song cycle commissioned by Oxford International Song Festival, created in collaboration with writer Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh and inspired by the Shahnameh (‘Book of Kings’), the 10th-century

New works by or about women powered this year’s Oxford Song festival, tackling everything from Ireland’s Magdalene laundries to the heroines of Iranian myth

From Handel to Verdi & beyond - interview: soprano Soraya Mafi on singing in Handel's Saul at Glyndebourne, & expanding into bel canto & Bernstein

The BBC Singers and Principal Guest Conductor Owain Park join forces with acclaimed Nigerian-Scottish trumpeter Aaron Azunda Akugbo.

Last night’s concert at Kings Place was a programme of contemporary pieces – including several premieres – by horn superstar Ben Goldscheider and string quartet Brother Tree Sound, “curated”, as the c...

For more than 40 years Vaughan Williams funding has been awarded to support postgraduate study in composition. This year the Foundation has announced four new scholarships, totalling £32,000, for the…

Leah Broad explores the influences, collaborations and philosophy of a young composer

Listen to Moth x Human (Live) by Ellie Wilson, Jay Chakravorty, Huw Evans, Freya Hicks, Louise McMonagle.

For more than 40 years Vaughan Williams funding has been awarded to support postgraduate study in composition. This year the Foundation has announced four new scholarships, totalling £32,000, for the…

The return of the annual summer series of new music, now celebrating its 20th year, in the wonderful acoustic of St Mary at Hill in the CIty of London. Rich and delicate treasures of music and rarely ...