Successfully auditioning for an orchestra is one of the hardest challenges that musicians face. We explain how the process ...

Catchy music makes you tap your foot. Emotive music catches you off guard and without warning, has your eyes pricking and nose running. So why do we have this physiological response to music?

Former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who are also husband and wife, are among many figure skaters ...

The Welsh university where Sir Karl Jenkins studied music announced its plans as part of a scheme to save money.

From Billy Joel’s inability to resist a good Beethoven melody to Lady Gaga’s sampling of rhapsodic violin solos, here are the greatest examples of classical samples in pop. In 19 cases of chicken and ...

Discover classical music with Wigmore Hall’s brilliant young people’s scheme, offering £5 tickets to under 35s. One of the world’s finest classical music venues is offering £5 tickets for concertgoers ...

A soprano has sung Mozart’s fiendish aria from the Magic Flute in a shopping centre in Leeds, to the delight of onlookers. Soprano Anna Dennis has wowed crowds by singing Mozart’s ‘Queen of the Night’ ...

The pieces so powerful that you’ll be out of your seat, air-conducting to the full force of an imaginary orchestra, or staring into the distance, marvelling at the sheer beauty of it all. An explosion ...

Although she died in 1987, the image of cellist Jacqueline du Pré still resonates as one of the most recognised and beloved ...

With 54 Academy Award nominations across his glittering career, John Williams continues to hold the record as the most Oscar-nominated living person. Here’s every nomination he has ever had. As the ...