The latest request from a commercial organisation that musicians work for free has been given a withering response on social media. The organisation in question was East Midlands Airport, who recently…
Borough New Music was founded in January of this year with the aim of celebrating the music of today and of living composers. Following its first series of concerts in February,…
Julian Anderson is the subject of A BBC Total Immersion Day on 21st October. It begins at 1pm at Milton Concert Hall with Guildhall musicians performing chamber works Ring Dance, The Colour of Pomegrantes, Van…
Madeleine Mitchell. Photo by Rama Knight Christian Morris talks to Madeleine Mitchell, who will be giving the world premiere of a newly discovered work by Grace Williams on 7th September…
The title work Jonathan Dove’s new Signum disk, In Damascus, is the composer’s response to contemporary events in Syria. Written for tenor and string quartet it is a haunting collection of eleven short movements,…
September sees the return of Simon Rattle to London as LSO Music Director, an event that will be celebrated with a series of Barbican concerts that have contemporary music front…
After spilling more than a few column inches over the Tête à Tête Opera Festival I thought, today, that it was probably time to move on. Then I came across…
The cast of Pterodactyls of Ptexas taking a bow. My arrival at the first night of Tête à Tête coincided with a pop-up performance of Samuel Bordoli’s Belongings, a work first performed on the Caledonian…
Tête à Tête kicks off tomorrow in London, running until 13th August. I’ve long wanted to experience the festival, probably the UK's liveliest forum for new opera, so am today heading…
Till Janczukowicz Christian Morris talks to Till Janczukowicz, the CEO and founder of Idagio, a new music-streaming app dedicated to classical music that has some intriguing possibilities for composers. What is…