Colette Maze, now 107, began playing the piano at age 5. She defied the social conventions of her era to embrace music as a profession rather than as a pastime. She has just released her sixth album.

Symphony musicians rejected dramatic pay cuts by symphony management late Wednesday night.

A special series on KPAC 88.3 FM this month will air weekdays at 2:00 p.m. during "Classical Connections."

The Mid-Texas Symphony opens its live concert season with a classic piece by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov that conductor Akiko Fujimoto says is like a "concerto for orchestra," showcasing every player and section.

On his new album, Mozart & Contemporaries, the deep-thinking pianist from Iceland aims to debunk the image of Amadeus as the giggling savant by contrasting his music with that of his peers.

Greek composer and politician Mikis Theodorakis has died. He was 96 years old. His music for Zorba the Greek was full of joy — but his own story was much more complicated.

In writing the soundtrack for the "spiritual sequel" to the 1992 film, veteran sound artist and composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe drew on found sound, horror legacies and African-American history.

Isolated by pandemic last year, violinist Jennifer Koh asked prominent composers to donate tiny pieces, and to nominate fellow up-and-coming composers to receive paid commissions.

The Musicians' union is having to re-negotiate an existing contract and are being asked to take a large wage cut.

The trailblazing singer, who broke the color barrier at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955, is remembered in a deluxe new release of albums and images.