Cardiff University has reversed its controversial decision to scrap its music course as part of wide-ranging cuts affecting a range of courses and the potential loss of some 400 jobs. Wales’s largest university backed down in the face of protests from staff,...
CONDUCTORS DIE ON SAME DAY IN MAYIt is with great regret that we record the passing of two British conductors this month: Matthew Best and Neville Dilkes. Matthew Best, bass singer and conductor – founder of the Corydon Singers, was born on 6th February 1957,...
1951 – 2025 Ronald Corp lived a full life as an ordained Anglican minister who was a member of the Society of the Holy Cross (SSC), and as an accomplished musician whose achievements as a conductor and composer earned him an OBE for services to British music....
The seventh annual Summer Music in City Churches will take place from 18 to 27 June in the City of London and feature music with the theme of Eternal Light and a feast of British music both old and new. The legendary Sir John Rutter conducts the opening concert with a...
British chamber music will feature in a trio of concerts taking place in June including one at Leighton House in London by violinist Madeleine Mitchell, pianist Julian Milford and cellist Kirsten Jenson (pictured above). On 1 June as part of the Music In Country...
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s latest album, released on 30 May, unites Holst’s beloved Planets suite with the world premiere recording of Deborah Cheetham Fraillon’s Earth. More than a century after its premiere, Gustav Holst’s intergalactic masterpiece, The...
