John Harle News Today

National Trust has submitted an application to be able to offer more plays and live music in Havering.

Over the past few days concert goers at the Aspen Music Festival heard a Chinese composer’s piece for piano and orchestra that swerved from celestial beauty to agonizing noise, a saxophonist who delineated music by composers from Baroque to Björk with a pop artist’s flair, Wynton Marsalis’ delightful jazz-infused version of a Stravinsky classic and a 45-minute rumination of the history of time that spread sections of the orchestra around the perimeter of the music tent.

The story of a Victorian cycling vicar and a fashion guru in the Swinging Sixties is on public show at the historic Grade II-listed Rainham Hall for…

The Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata and Manchester Collective join forces in an enticing new weekender for their home city. Elsewhere, breathless, barefoot revelations with Messiaen

The multi-arts festival with local students at its heart is back with live music, design exhibitions, creative workshops and more.

Sir Mark Elder to become Conductor Emeritus, and Thomas Adès Artist in Residence

Manchester Classical will see the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and a host of other stellar artists come together for a breathtaking weekend of music and more

It may have been the Eurovision Song Contest, but for literally hundreds of local music-lovers there was no contest: Jess Gillam – that dynamic, glittering mega-star saxophonist, was in town with her brilliant Ensemble, and we were all packed into St Mary’s Church to welcome them, writes Jane Thomas.

THE West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival returns with a stellar programme of events lined up for the month of May that promises to take audiences on an exciting musical voyage from Bach to Bowie and beyond.

Composer best known for creating the theme music for the popular and long-running ITV series Poirot