So thorough is an immersion into the world of Jean Sibelius offered by Seattle Symphony in coming weeks that a drinking-age patron will be able to sample the Finnish composer’s favorite cocktail in ...

The hot ticket for classical music lovers this month is a cool Finn: Jean Sibelius, whose 150th birthday is the catalyst for a mini-festival featuring all seven of the Finnish composer’s symphonies ...

Osmo Vänskä's recordings with the Lahti Symphony of the seven Sibelius symphonies, along with other orchestral works by the Finnish master, put both conductor and orchestra on the musical map.

Now that society has begun accepting gender as a matter of identity, might we not next adapt a similar flexibility to age identity? Let this week’s Los Angeles Philharmonic program of Sibelius’ last ...

Sarah Kwak joined the Oregon Symphony as concertmaster last season. (Ross William Hamilton/The Oregonian) The beginning of Jean Sibelius' First Symphony is a marvel of mood setting. Unlike other ...

The people of Finland and the Finnish government were so appreciative of the music Jean Sibelius (b. Dec. 8, 1865) composed honoring the nature, history and mythology of his homeland that he was given ...

But for a 19-year-old American violinist, this week’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert is all Finnish all the time. Alas, at least on Thursday night, Pietari Inkinen proved that a Finnish conductor ...

Last year I made the decision to take a break from conducting over the summer of 2017. The previous few seasons had been exhausting as I flew constantly back and forth between New York, Jacksonville ...

At the symphony's finale, full of brass and grandeur, music director Osmo Vänskä's baton was still outstretched, the string players' bows still suspended in the air, when the hollering started. The ...