To help diversify American orchestras, one group is helping to get players to auditions

American orchestras are overwhelmingly white, according to a 2016 report by the League of American Orchestras. Black and Latino musicians make up less than 5 percent of orchestra members.

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Classical music on video games prompts huge rise in millennial listeners, Classic FM says

Composers and station directors have pointed to film scores and background music on video games as a potential gateway into classical music

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UNM student asks for help finding stolen, handmade violin

A University of New Mexico student is asking for your help after his violin was stolen. It's not just any violin, it was one that he made from scratch at the university.

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Calgary Opera director stepping down

“I will cherish the warm reception I received from Calgary Opera and the community, and the collaborations with my colleagues from other arts organizations across Canada.

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Californian Youth Conductor Arrested for Alleged 'Internet Crimes Against Children'

A 39-year-old instrumental music teacher and conductor in San Jose, California, has been arrested and charged with the 'suspicion of Internet crimes against children'.

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Finalists Announced at Shanghai's 2018 Isaac Stern International Violin Competition

Open to violinists of any nationality, aged between 16 and 32, the 2018 1st prize winner will receive US $100,000.

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Singer Accuses David Daniels, Leading Opera Star, of Rape

The opera star David Daniels, one of the world's best-known countertenors, took a leave of absence from his job as a music professor at the University of Michigan on Wednesday after a young singer accused him of drugging and raping him after a performance in Houston in 2010.

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SPCO hires principal clarinet

Fans of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra are already familiar with Sang Yoon Kim. He performed with the orchestra as a guest musician for seven weeks in 2017-18. The South Korea native had his first taste of Minnesota even earlier, in 2013, as Young Artist in Residence with Classical MPR.

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A six-string custom viola played by Henning Kraggerud

Kraggerud is playing his custom-made ‘viola concorda’. ‘I was longing for a sound that I couldn’t produce, so I ordered a new instrument from Ariane Becker,’ he writes.

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Liszt's lost opera finally brought to life after 170 years

'Sardanapalo’, Liszt’s unfinished opera which had been lost in the archives for nearly 170 years, was premiered in Germany on Sunday.

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The stupidest things drivers have done behind the wheel revealed - including playing the trumpet

The stupidest things drivers have done behind the wheel revealed – from putting on make-up to playing the trumpet

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Meet OKC Philharmonic's New Music Director

The OKC Philharmonic has a new Music Director and he's really wanting to get to know Oklahoma. German-born conductor Alexander Mickelthwate is the newly appointed Music Director of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.

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Weapon found inside a flute at Munich airport

According to their customs office, the sword had been sent by airmail from China to Norway and was registered as a gift.

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Malmö Symphony Announces New Principal Conductor

The Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Sweden, has today announced the appointment of 34-year-old American conductor Robert Trevino as its new Principal Conductor – effective from the commencement of the 2019-20 season.

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Iraq's National Symphony Orchestra play on despite unpaid wages

In a dusty Baghdad dance studio, conductor Mohammed Amin Ezzat tries to fire up the musicians of Iraq's National Symphony Orchestra, whose enthusiasm has been dampened by eight months without pay.

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5 Composers with Synesthesia

With Scriabin’s The Poem of Ecstasy rounding off tonight’s Prom, we list four other composers who claimed to see music as colour…

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LA Opera cellist's $100000 instrument, stolen from Mission Valley hotel, found and returned

Faculty and students at an elite international summer music camp held in San Diego erupted in cheers Monday when they learned that an instructor's stolen cello — a custom instrument worth $100,000 — had been found undamaged.

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Orchestra approves 3-year contract with Ohio musicians

The Columbus Symphony has announced a new contract with its 47 musicians taking effect next month. The three-year collective-bargaining agreement provides a 3 percent raise for musicians.

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Lexington Philharmonic conductor to leave after 2019 season

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Scott Terrell has opted not to renew his contract once it expires in June 2019.

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Lexington Philharmonic director Scott Terrell leaving after the coming season

The Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra announced Friday morning that Music Director Scott Terrell will depart the orchestra after this coming season.

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Chamber Orchestra's first chair violinist breaks through a musical glass ceiling

Not long ago, few women won leadership spots in American orchestras. But today, more women are winning top jobs such as concertmaster – the first chair violinist.

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Boston's Symphony Hall being tested for asbestos

An iconic building in Boston is dealing with a potential health problem. The Boston Symphony Orchestra received a complaint in mid-July about possible asbestos exposure due to damaged ducts in the attic of Symphony Hall.

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Cleveland Orchestra receives $9.3 million donation

The Cleveland Orchestra has received a $9.3 million gift from the estate of an Ohio philanthropist who died last year.

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Glyndebourne: We are pleased to announce that Stephen Langridge has been appointed Artistic Director of Glyndebourne.

Stephen is currently Director for Opera and Drama at Gothenburg Opera, Sweden, a role he has occupied for five years. He will take up his new role at Glyndebourne in spring 2019.

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Why classical musicians are bracing for the worst after Brexit

By comparison, the classical music cause perhaps seems trivial. But plenty of people in the sector are unsettled.

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Cello stolen from LA Opera orchestra principal

Los Angeles based cellist John Walz has annouced that his cello was stolen yesterday from his hotel room at the Town and Country hotel in San Diego.

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Woman detained in Slovakia for playing Verdi for 16 years

A woman has been detained in Slovakia for playing 'La Traviata' from morning until night for years.

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Grammy Award-winning conductor jailed for abusing choirboy

A world-renowned conductor who abused a boy who saw him as a "surrogate father" has been jailed for 10 months. J

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Estonian young classical musician of the year to head to Edinburgh Festival

Estonian Percussionist Tanel-Eiko Novikov, 17, the winner of ERR's Klassikatähed young person's classical music competition, is to head to the Edinburgh International Festival for Eurovision Young Musicians 2018 (EYM).

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First virtual reality Prom announced

The BBC Proms is to enter virtual reality for the first time, with a production that puts viewers in the centre of the Royal Albert Hall.

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STOLEN VIOLIN ALERT | 1927 August Friedrich Herrmann Violin

lAn international stolen instrument alert has been issued for a 1927 August Friedrich Herrmann violin – stolen from a Trenitalia Intercity train travelling between Rimini and Milano, in Italy, on Sunday the 5th of August, 2018.

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Pittsburgh Opera's annual sale to feature 100-plus pianos

More than 100 pianos will be available for sale from Aug. 23-26 at Pittsburgh Opera headquarters at 2425 Liberty Ave.

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20 young conductors selected to take part in the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition 2018

Two days of preliminary rounds will culminate in a grand final when three finalists will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in a public concert at the Barbican in front of a live audience in the hall and watching online at home, and an illustrious panel of judges.

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Musicians allege age discrimination in Michigan orchestra

Two musicians with the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra have resigned after receiving disciplinary action they allege was based on their ages.

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Conductor Marin Alsop on early-morning exercise, her 19th-century home, and learning to put family first - The Times

Conductor Marin Alsop on early-morning exercise, her 19th-century home, and learning to put family firstThe TimesConductor Marin Alsop on early-morning exercise, her 19th-century home, and learning to put family first. “I tend not to play much music because I love silence; just listening to the birds. Music engages so much of my brain that it feels like work ...

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'Humiliating': Cellist Booted From American Airlines Flight After Buying Ticket For Instrument

American Airlines told NBC 5 in a statement there was a "miscommunication" about whether the cello met the requirements to fit onboard the aircraft.

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Hannah Rankin: the bassoonist with a shot at a boxing world title (paywall)

Hannah Rankin was studying for her master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music when the boxing bug bit. It has already taken her further than she imagined and tonight, in New York, she aims to become the first female British boxer to win one of the “big four” world titles.

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Met Opera Reaches Labor Deal With Singers, Musicians

The Metropolitan Opera has reached a tentative agreement with the unions representing its musicians and singers, officials with the company and the unions said Friday.

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Florida Orchestra names Daniel Black as new assistant conductor

The Florida Orchestra has hired conductor Daniel Black to share an increased workload in community concerts and other special programs.

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Osmo Vanska, the maestro who went on strike with his orchestra

After a 16-month lockout, the Minnesota Orchestra is back and coming to the Proms with conductor Osmo Vanska. He talks to Richard Morrison

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The most prominent Albanian tenor dies aged 83

The Albanian world of music is mourning. The legendary tenor, Gaqo Çako has died at the age of 83.

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Stranger strikes discordant note inside Saskatoon symphony office

The executive director of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra is recovering at home after police say a stranger walked into the symphony’s office and stabbed him in the face with the blunt end of a fork.

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Concertgebouw Orchestra sacks conductor over #metoo allegations

The Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam has sacked chief conductor Daniele Gatti with immediate effect, following last month’s report in the Washington Post in which he was accused of sexual assault in 1996 and 2000.

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Lost work by Stevenage composer Elizabeth Poston found after 59 years

The composer, who was born at Pin Green in 1905, lived on the northern edge of Stevenage at Rooks Nest House – the childhood home of author EM Forster, with whom she was friends.

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After outrage, Philadelphia Orchestra adds female composers to its 2018-19 roster

Partially in response to national criticism for assembling a 2018-19 season without a single work by a female composer, the orchestra Wednesday issued a revised season schedule augmented by two works by female composers.

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In wake of Post story about allegations, an opera director leaves the field

In the latest response to The Washington Post’s report about sexual harassment in classical music, Bernard Uzan, 73, the stage director and artists’ manager, announced that he is leaving opera.

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How I learned to love 'The Phantom of the Opera' music while mowing a giant lawn

The summer I was 13, I accidentally fell in love with "The Phantom of the Opera" soundtrack. It wasn't just a distraction from a dauntingly large lawn and a mower that could take my foot off.

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British Airways in the spotlight as violinist complains of boarding drama

Grier, a former Guildhall School student currently studying on the postgraduate programme at the Universität der Künste in the German capital, was attempting to complete the final leg of a return journey from China.

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What is the most memorable Prom in history?

Exploring Rostropovich's historic performance of Dvořák's Cello Concerto at the 1968 Proms

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Cleveland Orchestra member reunited with violin stolen at gunpoint

Violinist was victim of armed robbery at his home last week – three teenagers have now been arrested

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