They have to know the music inside out and back to front. They shape the music the orchestra plays and lead them during performances. Conductors came into their own when the orchestra got too big ...

Apart from being a solo star instrument, the piano was originally used in the orchestra to add strength to weak bits of music. Since the early 1900s the piano has become more equal and ...

Hans Zimmer and his orchestral creations are being celebrated at Marbella’s Palacio de Congresos on Wednesday, October 23.

One of the 20th century’s most enduring, endearing works of classical music, George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” was ...

said its new strategy - which includes doubling funding for music education, launching new training initiatives and creating a single digital home for its orchestras - constituted "the first major ...