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Korean composer Chin Un-suk won the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, dubbed the Nobel Prize of classical music, Thursday, becoming the first Asian to do so.

Opera North has launched its spring season with Giles Havergal’s 2013 production of Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring, performed (as conceived) in the Howard Assembly Room – the company’s studio space next door to the Grand Theatre. The economics of opera are a dark and dismal science, but one of the few constants is that ticket

South Korean composer Chin Unsuk was awarded this year's International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, a prestigious award that honors a composer, performer or musicologist who has made a distinguished contribution to the world of music, according to the Tongyeong International Music Festival, Thursday. Chin is the first Asian and fifth woman to receive the main prize since it was first given in 1974. Chin has sh...

A 13-year-old pianist who fled war in Ukraine to take up a scholarship at the Royal College of Music is performing a concert in Dorchester to raise…

Paul Harding’s evocative novel begins with the 1815 hurricane off the New England...