TALLINN Music Week draws a young crowd. One imagines that they might listen to techno, R&B or jazz in their spare time; they do not seem like the types typically found in a classical concert hall.

Everyday, contemporary composers are making their mark on the sonic palette of classical music. Throughout history, there have been incredible examples of music, artforms, and creative cultures forged ...

Classical art meets modern-day drudgery in artist Alexey Kondakov‘s ongoing series Art History in Contemporary Life. For the past two years, Kondakov has been delighting his fans by expertly ...

It's remarkable to watch the evolution of contemporary music through a radio station's music library. Like an entomologist collecting varieties of moths or butterflies, we collect every stylistic ...

The Second World Conference of Classics is scheduled to open on Tuesday in Athens, Greece, a year and a half after its first edition. Themed "Dialogue between Ancient and Modern: Contemporary ...

Modern and contemporary classical music, at least a good deal of it, is a problem for many listeners, to put it mildly. Some reject it outright, resistant to it before the get-go. Others are merely ...

Celebrated British musician reveals close encounters with unhappy concert-goers on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs The celebrated and controversial British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage says he has ...