Guardian Music — Sell-out Venezuela orchestra concert to be live-streamed on Guardian website on 23 and 26 JuneWhen two concerts were announced by the extraordinary Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela in the Southbank Centre, tickets sold out instantly �... more info

Guardian Music — José Ángel Salazar, part of the country's successful El Sistema music programme, is not old enough to earn a wageFor a professional conductor, José Ángel Salazar has a fresh-faced, youthful demeanour: he is quite short, with disproportionately la... more info

Guardian Music — Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolVenezuela continues, it would seem, to turn out young musicians with astonishing potential. We are, of course, already familiar with Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.We now, however, have the phe... more info

Mercury News, California — Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yo-Yo Ma, Nathan Gunn among other artists in the lineup more info

Guardian Music — Increasingly shown in 3D, classic stage works including Madam Butterfly are winning new audiencesIf there is a queue around the block leading into the local cinema this month, it might not be for the next in a chain of blockbuster action sequels. Sho... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Calle 13 and Gustavo Dudamel make music together in the opening number of the Latin Grammy Awards. more info

Guardian Music — The London 2012 festival, which will form the grand finale of the Cultural Olympiad, unveils countrywide programme of arts events from a bell-ringing flashmob to Cate Blanchett's return to the stageThe simultaneous ringing of every bell in the countr... more info

Guardian Music — New project launches in US, inspired by Venezuela and based on the principle that classical music can be a force for goodWhat do the sardine-packed, poverty-riven barrios of Caracas and the classical music elites of Los Angeles, Cambridge, Massachuse... more info

Guardian Music — Pavel Haas Quartet and the Wigmore Hall Live label also among winners at classical music awardsThere might have been recent murmurings questioning the adulation that has come Gustavo Dudamel's way, but Gramophone readers were in no doubt of the talen... more info

Guardian Music — The author explains how he came to abandon a conventional biography of the composer in favour of a 'club DJ' approach 'with lots of fast-forward and rewind'How did you come to write Why Mahler?I had been struggling with the question for most of my ad... more info