Features
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Event preview: Insights on Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore
On 1st July 2019 Divas & Scholars will present an Insights and Highlights evening on Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, to beRead More -
What do Debussy, Stravinksy, and DNA have in common?
Composer Alex Mills explains his new commission, Crossing Over, for Cheltenham Music Festival If someone asked you to name theRead More -
How Garsington’s grand designs grew even grander
By Andrew Green Celebrating its 30th anniversary this summer, Garsington Opera has come a very long way since it beganRead More -
Singing and signing
Tenor and choir trustee Toby Spence explains The Bach Choir’s latest project for people with hearing loss Since 2017, TheRead More -
Stephen Wallack releases his debut album Chapters
Stephen Wallack’s Chapters features new age pieces inspired by important moments in the pianist’s life. From ‘Weddings’, composed for hisRead More -
A colourful approach to music education
Sponsored content The connection between sound and colour is something that is very familiar to people with synaesthesia, a conditionRead More -
Preview: The Grange Festival
The Grange Festival, Hampshire Preview by Adrian Mourby When I travelled to rural Hampshire earlier this spring, The Grange, aRead More -
Changing the score – thought leadership piece
Paritor specialises in innovative software solutions for tuition management in the music education and performing arts industries. Its portfolio ofRead More -
Artist of the month: Sonia Ben-Santamaria
‘I keep having the thought that I just don’t fit the box,’ says Sonia Ben-Santamaria, the Toulouse-born conductor who hasRead More -
Premieres: June’s new music
The climate crisis is more urgent than ever. Environmental opera Upon This Handful of Earth received its Norwegian premiere earlierRead More -
Classical music for teenagers in Armenia
We hear from the team behind DasA, a new project aimed at promoting classical music among students in Armenian schools.Read More -
Mind map: mental health provision in classical music
Chris Gunness explores the facts and figures relating to mental health in the music industry The music industry can beRead More -
How students suffer
A surge in demand for student mental health services is producing some innovative solutions, writes Christopher Gunness ‘I became depressed,Read More -
Artist of the month: Rebeca Omordia
Toby Deller speaks to the pianist and founder of the African Concert Series ‘I’ve always been of the idea thatRead More -
Jammin’
JAM on the Marsh festival is going from strength to strength, each year developing and nurturing a community of artistsRead More -
Online production of the month: Khovanshchina
Khovanshchina Mussorgsky La Scala, Milan Review by James Imam Photography by Brescia & Amisano Crouched over his score likeRead More -
DVD of the month: The Exterminating Angel
The Exterminating Angel Adès Erato 0190295525507 By Francis Muzzu Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel was first seen at the SalzburgRead More -
In pursuit of perfection
Social media is an important tool for promoting the musician. But how can the pressure to maintain a perfect onlineRead More -
On my mind
CM editor Lucy Thraves introduces the Harmony in Mind campaign with her own revelations about living with anxiety, and suggestsRead More -
Artist of the month: Héloïse Werner
If you think of artists when they start out, they just make art. When you think of painters or artistsRead More
