As one of the most-performed living composers, the Pulitzer winner insists that her music communicate to everyone — from farmers to children to the classical music intelligentsia.

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has ...

Over two nights at Carnegie Hall, Andris Nelsons and the orchestra reveled in the composer’s sonic riches but played with ...

Several rising British bands are using centuries-old ditties to discuss hot-button issues like prison abolition, trans rights and the gig economy.

International pianist Alessandro Taverna is taking to the stage on May 10 with the Hull Philharmonic to honour the late ...

Research shows that playing a musical instrument does amazing things to our brains — and especially in young children.

A new vision for the Kennedy Center could undo years of reconsidering what American classical music sounds like.

Musicians Janis Ian in 1981, from left, Bob Dylan in 1963, and Leonard Cohen in 2009. (Photos by Eddie Mallin/CC BY SA 2.0; ...

The season features 3,000 artists and more than 80 solo debuts with 72 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and 14 at venues across ...

Why does Gen Z love nonchalant pop music? - Instead of innovating, new pop artists are leaning into a deliberately ...

The world's biggest classical music festival announces its 2025 programme this week - and is fighting to maintain relevance.

While a violin and a fiddle are structurally the same instrument, a fiddle is its own entity—one that's grounded in its ...