A musician from P.E.I. is included on CBC Music's classical "30 under 30" list for the first time. While it's not the first time tuba player Olive MacPhail has been featured at a national level, ...

It turns out the tuba isn't just in parades and marching bands. Professional tubist Portia Njoku is keen to educate the world on the many different (and expressive) roles the tuba can have in music.

Hope all of you in the States enjoyed your Thanksgiving. We took some time off to enjoy ours, so this week, we’re giving you old gold. Øystein was recently in Houston, and because our stars didn’t ...

Michael Daugherty is one of America's most successful modern orchestral composers. Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he has also been an NEA and Guggenheim Fellow, ...

The Kimmel Center rings in the holiday season with the return of the annual Tuba Christmas Celebration (tonight, Dec. 16), offering double the fun with two performances of up to 100 local tuba players ...

Exactly why this set, recorded in Sydney in 2003, has waited so long for a commercial release is a bit of a puzzle. These are fabulous performances in every sense. The playing is so vibrant, so alive ...

From WSHU's daytime and evening classical programs, Emily Boyer and Lauren Rico give you a heads-up on some of the best music they'll be sharing with you.

The piece set to music the tale from Ovid in which Jupiter woos Europa in the guise a bull (pictured below: The Abduction of Europa by Jean-François de Troy, 1716). Complex? Yes. Picturesque? Not ...

Ohio is not a state known for its mountains. The Hocking Hills, the Appalachian foothills and the state’s other areas of rolling terrain, though lush and beautiful, aren’t exactly the Alps. But that’s ...