Interview with Mark van de Wiel, London Sinfonietta Principal Clarinet

Inspired by grime, Jean Michel Basquiat, and the legacies of colonialism, composer Hannah Kendall talks about how music is always about more than just music.

Speaking to Alex Paxton and Kate Whitley, Elodie Olson-Coons discusses how composers have been influenced by working with schoolchildren, this “amazing, little gobbet of sonic humanity”.

With events ranging from contemporary classical to early music and electronica, Kings Place’s Sound Unwrapped 2023 is a mind-expanding exploration of combinations of acoustic sound and electronics.

Arts Council England have issued multiple funding reductions to contemporary music organisations across England, with some seeing total reductions in funding.

A group of younger Croatian musicians, including new ensemble Gli Schiavoni, are determined to recover the historical music of Croatia, despite a devastating series of earthquakes and armed conflicts.

Brett Dean, Heather Betts and Lotte Betts-Dean sit down to discuss their work on Of One Blood, a new opera dramatising the lives of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots – affairs of the family all round.