Category: News
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Construction to begin on Edinburgh’s first concert hall in a century
Nine years after the project was first announced, the Dunard Centre completes its transition from aspiration to construction
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Sir Keir Starmer on Radio 3’s Private Passions: heartfelt but a little hollow
Sir Keir Starmer’s Private Passions appearance is part love-letter to music, part soft-focus politics. He’s evidently warm in his advocacy of music education, but the committment is light on detail, for all the obvious reasons.
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RAJARS 2025: Everybody’s down and its not a disaster
Radio 3’s apparent slump isn’t a crisis; it’s a reminder that measurement no longer tells the full story. The audience hasn’t disappeared — it’s moved into spaces that RAJAR can’t see and the BBC now controls. What looks like decline is really transition: from live radio to on-demand, from shared experience to personal choice.
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Composer Anne Dudley to receive Ivors Academy Fellowship
Composer Anne Dudley will be awarded the Ivors Academy Fellowship at the Ivors Classical Awards on 11 November 2025, with the ceremony broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 15 November. Her induction celebrates a career that spans pop innovation, film and television scoring, and orchestral composition — a legacy that bridges ABC’s The Lexicon of…
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New CEO for London Mozart Players to start in January 2026
New management for London Mozart Players with the appointment of a new Chief Executive.
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Adrian Sutton (1967 – 2025)
A reflection on composer Adrian Sutton, drawn from a single conversation in Blackheath last year — a brief encounter that left a lasting impression.
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NEWS – Nominees announced for Ivors Classical Music 2025
The 2025 Ivors Classical Awards shortlist celebrates UK composers including Anibal Vidal, Ruby Colley, Judith Weir, and James MacMillan. Winners announced 11 November.
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Radio 3 Unwind launches on DAB radio
Radio 3 Unwind arrives on DAB today — mood music with a BBC badge. Once derided, now unavoidable. A bold pitch for new listeners or a Reithian nightmare? Either way, it’s a sign the classical broadcast landscape is shifting faster than some critics would like to admit.
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News – Owain Park’s new gig
Owain Park is named Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers, marking a renewed commitment to the ensemble’s future after a turbulent period — and reaffirming the value of integrity, collaboration, and musical craft.
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Broad and telling: what the BBC’s new collaboration with the EBU might be signalling
Billed as pioneering, the BBC’s EBU collaboration hints at strategic changes in classical music broadcasting.