The Latest Breaking News from Pierre Boulez

Jaap van Zweden is ending his tenure as the New York Philharmonic music director after six seasons, the orchestra’s shortest since Pierre Boulez from 1971-77

Hungarian conductor of modernist music who went on to compose operas with texts ranging from Three Sisters to Angels in America

Other lives: Avant garde composer who produced some of the first British electronic music

Bartók revised his ‘pantomime ballet’ many times; the BBC Scottish Symphony orchestra’s new disc is the first ever recording of its final version

Australian composer long resident in Britain whose music uses complex means to produce a direct result

Explore the details of Grammy winners with the highest number of wins in history.

Emmanuel Gat explains why it’s easier to choreograph to Pierre Boulez than pop music and how his dancers perform ‘with a question mark not an exclamation mark’

LOS ANGELES — This year's Ojai Festival began Thursday night with a tribute to Kaija Saariaho, the Finnish composer who died earlier this month. For Ojai, Steven Schick performed an ethereal percussion piece inspired by the moss garden at the Kyoto temple Saiho-ji, which is the greenest place I have…

Arts administrator who founded the London Sinfonietta and led the Southbank Centre and Glyndebourne

The ensemble is lauded across the classical world. The BBC Singers inspire, educate and entertain, and their closure matters to us all. Here is why

The singing superstar overtakes British-Hungarian conductor Georg Solti as the most decorated artist in Grammys history