The Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year Awards are back for 2026, with £20,000 of musical instruments and equipment up for ...

1. A child prodigy Joshua Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, on 9 December 1967. He began taking violin lessons at the age of four after his mother discovered that he had stretched rubber bands ...

The former child prodigy led an extraordinary life, including a close friendship with Samuel Barber, and performances for ...

The Oxford college where Anna Lapwood studied has announced that it will admit girl choristers from September 2027, in a ...

Violinist Elina Vähälä was performing the finale of Bruch’s Violin Concerto with Sinfonia Lahti when conductor Matthew Halls ...

“Too many children are being locked out of music in the UK,” said Cathal Ó Dúill, founder of Playground Proms. “When nearly ...

Composed between 1900 and 1901, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is often described as the greatest piano concerto ever written. After the disastrous premiere of Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 1 in 1897 ...

Tim Lihoreau is your host of weekend breakfast on Classic FM, with three hours of the most relaxing music to ease you gently into Saturday and Sunday mornings. Much-loved host of Classic FM’s More ...

Struggling to encourage your students to learn new tunes? Got some crabs handy? Swedish musician and YouTuber Mattias Krantz, known for his eccentric musical experiments, has found a new way of ...

A light music classic, well-known to veteran radio listeners. Ronald Binge was a British composer and arranger of light music. This is probably his best known composition. When it was first played by ...

Multi-Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and producer Jacob Collier is one of the brightest musical minds of the 21st century. But how is he so talented, and how did he become famous?

2. Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) Composer, guitarist, organist and priest, Sanz studied at the University of Salamanca, where he was later appointed Professor of Music. He wrote three volumes of tutorials ...