CapRadio Classical and Jazz is celebrating women in music all month ... Smyth was the first female composer to be awarded a damehood (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1922 ...

English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of the most important figures in classical music in the 20th century ... history in 2014 when she became the first ever female Master of the Queen’s ...

Presenters Clive Myrie and Georgia Mann help the BBC Singers celebrate their 100th birthday with a spectacular choral party at London’s Barbican Hall. Formed in October 1924 as the BBC Wireless ...

Three talented Barbadian classical singers are about to get a boost in their quest for the world’s big opera stages through the efforts of British opera singer Melinda Hughes. Tenor Nathan ...