The Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year Awards are back for 2026, with £20,000 of musical instruments and equipment up for ...

The former child prodigy led an extraordinary life, including a close friendship with Samuel Barber, and performances for ...

Violinist Elina Vähälä was performing the finale of Bruch’s Violin Concerto with Sinfonia Lahti when conductor Matthew Halls ...

The Oxford college where Anna Lapwood studied has announced that it will admit girl choristers from September 2027, in a ...

Liszt's Romantic piano miniature is one of the composer's most popular works The quintessential Romantic piano miniature, Liszt’s Liebestraum No.3 was actually originally published as one of a set of ...

“Too many children are being locked out of music in the UK,” said Cathal Ó Dúill, founder of Playground Proms. “When nearly ...

Tim Lihoreau is your host of weekend breakfast on Classic FM, with three hours of the most relaxing music to ease you gently into Saturday and Sunday mornings. Much-loved host of Classic FM’s More ...

Everything you need to know about Laufey, the trailblazing multi-instrumentalist who has harnessed the power of TikTok to bring classical and jazz to new audiences. Laufey was born in 1999 in ...

“People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there’s no connection,” the star tenor has said. Andrea Bocelli’s voice has become a familiar and loved sound ...

“Jamme, jamme jà, Funiculì, funiculà!” – so goes the popular Neapolitan song. But what do the lyrics mean? ‘Funiculì, Funiculà’ was composed by Luigi Denza in 1880, to lyrics in Neapolitan dialect by ...

There’s a bit of a phenomenon in professional orchestras (nope, you weren’t just imagining it) that the conductor always places their downbeat just before the musicians need to play their note. But ...

2. Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) Composer, guitarist, organist and priest, Sanz studied at the University of Salamanca, where he was later appointed Professor of Music. He wrote three volumes of tutorials ...