Japanese musician, currently the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s principal guest conductor, will succeed Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla in April 2023 The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra today ...

Kazuki Yamada begins a full Mahler Symphony Cycle with Symphony No.1. Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius opens the season with the full CBSO Chorus. Building on successful past collaborations, the CBSO ...

Andris Nelsons’s farewell concerts as CBSO music director are devoted to Mahler, whose Third Symphony bristled here with combative energy Andris Nelsons was hardly known internationally when he ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Talent scouts from music agencies could do worse than set up shop in Birmingham. While the world’s leading ...

The UK’s second city will lose almost all its council funding for the arts and music over the next two years, in a move that has been termed “cultural vandalism” by creatives. World-leading arts ...

Andris Nelsons, music director for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, has decided not to renew his rolling contract from the end of summer 2015. Nelsons said: “With an extremely heavy heart I ...

THE City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) has launched a a Best of British competition in a bid to uncover exactly what makes British music great as the country prepares to welcome the world at ...

Grazinyte-Tyla has been appointed for an initial three-year period The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) has appointed Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla as its musical director. The 29-year-old, who is ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a ...