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The Grammy Award-winning composer offers tips to help young would-be classical music fans get familiar with the experience of a live orchestra.

Find out more about the contemporary classical music composer, from his early influence to a notorious Last Night of the Proms performance.

The organist and Director of the Choir of New College, Oxford, details his love of the celebrated German composer, JS Bach.

From Bedřich Smetana to Jean Sibelius, discover how seven different musical composers managed to encapsulate their country through their music.

Damsel Elysium, multi-instrumentalist, talks about collaboration and rediscovering music as an art form in this 2023 interview.

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s Rosary Sonatas went unheard for 200 years until being rediscovered in 1890; find out more about the iconic series.

One of the world’s leading pianists; watch five of Yuja Wang’s iconic performances including incredible encores at Carnegie Hall and the BBC Proms.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is enjoying a 21st century renaissance thanks to orchestras like Chineke! Find out more about the Victorian composer.

The principal conductor and co-founder of the London Contemporary Orchestra discusses collaboration and his musical journey in this 2022 interview.

The composer and sound artist gives a short interview about his musical style and approach to collaboration ahead of a 2022 gig with the LCO.

For our Arts Unravelled series, we explore how Dmitri Shostakovich’s compositions hide his own musical motif and dissent against Josef Stalin’s government.

Iannis Xenakis led a remarkable life that saw him become a mathematician, architect and composer. Find out more of his story.