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The Flanders Festival Ghent, Belgium, has cancelled a concert on 18th September by the Munich Philharmonic, citing concerns over its incoming Chief Conductor, Lahav Shani.

The conductor who transformed The Cleveland Orchestra into one of the world's leading ensembles died on 6th September 2025, just two days before his 96th birthday.

The prestigious Swiss festival will now have an overseas winter chapter, in China’s third largest city and one of the world centres of tech and manufacturing. 

The Royal Ballet School is introducing substantial changes as to how it trains its younger students at entry level, with effect from September 2026.

Festival leadership and city police have alleged that insiders and a former employee may have assisted pro-Palestine protestors to disrupt the Austrian vice chancellor’s speech at Salzburg Festival on Saturday.

Used to make string instrument bows for more than 200 years, Brazilian authorities wish to tighten trade on the critically endangered brazilwood tree, due to repeated illegal exploitation.

Director of Opera, Oliver Mears, was filmed trying to remove a Palestine flag raised by a performer during the final curtain call for Il trovatore. RBO has since said their “goal is to act with integrity and compassion.”

The pioneering conductor of the London Classical Players and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has died, aged 91.

Hrůša will initially be on a five-year contract, but the orchestra has already signalled its intention of this being the beginning of a long-term relationship.

The composer of scores for films such as Mission: Impossible, Bullitt, Cool Hand Luke and Dirty Harry has died aged 93.

Bachtrack founder Alison Karlin remembers Simon Majaro, founder of the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust, who provided moral and practical support in Bachtrack’s early days. 

A handful of arts leaders in the UK have been honoured in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours list, announced on Friday 13th June.

An experiment at the Dresden Music Festival has shown that the “love hormone” oxytocin increases more during a concert experience than during physical proximity.

Classical music’s most lucrative award, of $1 million, has been given to the prestigious French summer opera festival, in particular recognition of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence.

The Barbican’s foyer, lakeside and conservatory will all see improved accessibility and sustainability through the £240m scheme.

With an initial contract set from 2026 until 2030 – when the conductor will be 77 – the appointment represents the culmination of a relationship lasting more than three decades. 

Leaders have been expressing concerns about the far-reach practical implications for cultural venues as well as protecting trans, nonbinary and intersex people from discrimination.

The BBC’s prestigious young artist development scheme, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, welcomes six new entrants for 2025–27.

Particularly respected for his knowledge of sought-after instruments by Stradivari and Guarneri, Beare’s opinions were valued by leading soloists.

The sought-after current music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra will adopt this new role in Berlin from the 2026–27 season.

A longtime connoisseur of Pushkin’s novel, Fiennes’ production will hit the boards at Palais Garnier in February 2026.

The renowned Hungarian-born British pianist has become the latest musician to announce a withdrawal from planned concerts in the United States, for explicitly political reasons.

Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan and US jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock, together with British rock band Queen, join an illustrious list group of musicians to win the Swedish prizes.

Born in Christopol in 1931, Gubaidulina’s intensely spiritual music marked her out as the most important Russian composer of the contemporary period.

Kazuki Yamada, Claire Booth and the Paraorchestra were among the winners announced on Thursday, which also honoured contemporary music record label NMC and Belfast’s Open Arts Community Choir.

Encompassing over 500 interviews with people involved in the dance world, Voices of British Ballet aims to preserve important oral testimony from people instrumental to the development of ballet in the UK.

Formerly artistic director and chief conductor of the Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid, the young Polish conductor is the first woman chief conductor in the 370-year history of orchestras in Koblenz.

BBC Radio 3 is celebrating 25 years of the New Generation Artists scheme with a special day of programming on Monday 3rd March.

Withdrawing from an eight-city tour, including an appearance at Carnegie Hall, in an interview the German violinist said: “I feel utter anger. I cannot go on with this feeling inside.”

In his score to Brady Corbet’s feature, Blumberg’s cited London venue Café OTO and multiple musical collaborators: “radical musicians who’ve been making uncompromising music for many years.”

More than 1,000 musicians – including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and Sir James MacMillan – have released an album consisting of silent recordings of their empty studios and rehearsal rooms.

The conductor stated that his Glioblastoma tumour has returned, commenting “the odds are uncertain”. His 80th birthday performance with the San Francisco Symphony in April will be his last.

The renowned Hungarian composer’s is celebrated with a new release of his vocal music, sung by Benjamin Appl, alongside songs by Schubert and Brahms.

Culture minister Rachida Dati announced together with state train operator SCNF that basses will now be allowed – but only a single bass per train.

Describing the chorus of Teatro San Carlo being “made up of two rival mafia families”, the British conductor has drawn the ire of the Mayor of Naples.

The early work of Ravel’s, Prélude et danse de Sémiramis, from a partially lost cantata, has not been performed since it was composed in 1902.

The longest-running outdoor festival in the US and summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will undergo extensive redevelopment over the next four years.

Antwerp Symphony Orchestra has announced that Marc Albrecht will assume the role of chief conductor in September 2026.

LA Opera’s 40th season – concluding James Conlon’s 20-year run as music director – will not see any main-stage world premieres, with Missy Mazzoli’s previously scheduled Lincoln in the Bardo premiering in New York instead.

Widely admired for her recordings of Scarlatti and Clementi, Maria Tipo was a prolific concert artist and influential teacher at conservatories in Florence, Geneva and Bolzano.

The US president blindsided Washington’s major performing arts venue, which had not been informed, with an announcement on social media posted this weekend.

A new report finds a £160m funding shortfall in the budget for music education across England, noting a shortage of specialist music teachers, and a lack of appropriate and affordable venues.

Tributes have flowed in after the conductor and pianist announced his diagnosis on Thursday: “I am planning to maintain as many of my professional commitments as my health permits.”