Chances are, Graz will not be your first stop in Austria. It lacks the monumental musical clichés of Vienna, the postcard saturation of Mozart‘s Salzburg, or the immediate dramatic peaks of Innsbruck’s snow-capped Alps. Yet, there is a reason why

In the hands of French composer Chloë Pfeiffer, works of classical majesty are reimagined in tango. Tango’s distinctive rhythmic and harmonic language transforms Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Satie’s Gnossiennes, Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, and many other works by composers from

The highly anticipated finals of the Queen Elisabeth Competition for cello took place Monday, May 25, through Saturday, May 30, at the Salle Henry Le Boeuf (Centre for Fine Arts) in Brussels. Each evening, two finalists played the compulsory piece

Harrogate International Festivals is celebrating its 60th anniversary in style by bringing some of the biggest names and brightest emerging stars in classical music to Harrogate this summer – from the boundary-pushing stars such as Abel Selaocoe and Aurora Orchestra to legendary

During my long career as a professional cellist, I have seen the popularity of the cello dramatically increase. Audiences love the cello, and so do performers, and the level of playing is extraordinarily high. This is exemplified in this year’s

In 1875, the English lawyer Arthur Duke Coleridge, an amateur musician with influential connections, spent some time in Leipzig studying music alongside the young Charles Villiers Stanford. He became acquainted with Bach‘s B-minor Mass, a work that had received its

Ping Pong Gintoneria is hosting their 4th Classical Salon with students from the Baptist Univeristy’s Academy of Music on Thursday 23rd April 2026 from 8.30 pm to 10.30pm. Entrance is free This Salon’s performers are: Lau Kei Lung, Dragon |

Although well known in Vienna, the composer and performer Marianna Martines (1744–1812) was one of the city’s best-known secrets. A keyboardist who studied with Haydn from age 7, at the behest of Metastasio, Martines was an accomplished keyboardist. At age