The Ivors Academy launches a campaign alongside a number of composers. By Sophie Williams A number of leading British composers have joined The Ivors Academy’s call to “End Ghostwriting” in a campaign ...

British jazz saxophonist Jason Yarde won the inaugural Award for Contemporary Jazz Composition at the seventh annual British Composer Awards hosted by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composer and… ...

In 1904, the German critic Oscar Schmitz described Britain as ‘Das Land ohne Musik’ ('The land without music'). Schmitz was possibly trying to stir the pot a little. However, he did have a bit of a ...

British composers would appear to live up to their national stereotype of weather obsession, as they are twice as likely to have written music with climate themes as their counterparts from other ...

Prolific and multifaceted British composer and conductor Peter Maxwell Davies died Monday at age 81 at his home in the Orkney Islands, off the northern coast of Scotland. His death, from leukemia, was ...

Some fine composers go missing after their deaths, partly because they can no longer promote their music, or partly because they pass out of fashion. British ones, perhaps because of the – wrongly – ...

Sir James MacMillan, the foremost modern British composer and a forthright Catholic, says ‘music is the perfect art form to bring people together to see a better world.’ The music of Sir James ...

Harrison Birtwistle, an English composer famed for his rigorous artistic vision, sonic audacity and deeply theatrical expression has died at age 87. His death was confirmed Monday by his longtime ...