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 ...

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 ...

The Birmingham Orchestra has an enviable track record in selecting the right conductors to become its music director at just the right moment in their careers News: CBSO appoints 29-year-old Mirga ...

The CBSO present the work of three European émigré composers of the 1930s and 40s, who reimagined their musical influences with contrasting approaches and results.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...