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Taking a break from a demanding 2026 tour schedule of classic repertoire, Rachel Barton Pine dropped in on the Los Alamos Concert Association in New Mexico with a recital of…

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The live round of the 12^th Biennial Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition took place from 11–12 April in Easton, MD, US. The winners were selected following performances at the Prager Family Center for the…

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The finals of the second Bad Tölz International String Quartet Competition took place on 12 April. The Isla Quartet from the UK was awarded the €12,000 first prize as well as the €1,000 audience…

It’s an exceptional return for Jonas Briere, known to fans as Submarine.

The Runna EP is a big statement for the Berlin-based producer. Emerging from a break in releases – and from one of the more dark periods in his life – he…

Moya Brennan, the lead singer of Irish folk group Clannad, has died aged 73.

In her later years, Brennan had been living with pulmonary fibrosis and faced the possibility of a double lung transplant. A statement from her family said she died…

Makeup artist Katie Jane Hughes knows lips. She’s been lining the pouts of celebrities like Hailey Bieber, Lily Allen, and Dua Lipa (the latter of which she made up for her Radical Optimism Tour) for years. Then, she creates uber-detailed…

Luis Buñuel wrote that dreams were the first cinema. His short film Un Chien Andalou, co-written with Salvador Dalí and inspired by the pair’s dreams, is nearly 100 years old but its images still have the power to shock and disturb: a razor…

Former Chelsea and Arsenal midfielder Jorginho has withdrawn his recent criticism of the…

The narrator of Deborah Levy’s witty scherzo of a “fiction” – “novel” isn’t the word for this uncategorisable book – thinks that Gertrude Stein would have liked Sigmund Freud. She imagines them enjoying a cigar together while…