Jessie Montgomery is having a moment. Several moments at once, actually. In the past several years, the 40-year-old composer and violinist has rapidly become a poster child for the shifting classical ...

The American classical music vernacular would never be complete without the catalogs of great composers like William Grant Still, Florence Price, and George Walker. But even so, Black voices have been ...

Everyday, contemporary composers are making their mark on the sonic palette of classical music. Throughout history, there have been incredible examples of music, artforms, and creative cultures forged ...

The latest adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus” joins a rich lineage of fantastical and extravagant musical biopics.

For nearly 16 years, Yuriy Bekker has walked into A World of Jewish Culture at Piccolo Spoleto with a program of music most ...

Discover the fascinating origins and evolution of classical music, from ancient beginnings to legendary composers like Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and Chopin. Dive deep into six key periods of music ...

You’ve heard it all before. Classical music is dead. It’s one of our culture’s most enduring variations on a theme: that classical music is dying, or aging, or rusty or, at the very least, dusty. It’s ...

The French composer, Claude Debussy, is known as the first impressionist composer. He was born in 1862 and is often referred to as one of the most influential composers of the time. Some of his most ...

Open any compendium book about classical music and you’ll find an exhaustive list of male composers. In fact, there were many more male composers than female in the course of classical music history, ...

There will be a time when we’ll go to concerts again. We will buy our tickets, shuffle shoulder to shoulder down the aisle, and find our seats. The lights will dim, and the conductor will walk onto ...

From Bach’s violin sonatas in Snape, to Simon Rattle’s return to the UK, our expert selects the hottest tickets ...

In popular culture, it’s not often that classical music gets a spot in the proverbial spotlight. But more recently, two celebrated films have taken the subject up and earned critical and cultural ...