The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has placed a huge bet on Klaus Mäkelä for its future. It’s still too soon to tell whether that ...

Cellist Klaus Mäkelä was born into a family of musicians and performers, and started conducting at age 12. His mother is a pianist, his father is a cellist, his grandfather plays violin and viola, and ...

German composer and electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze has died at age 74, following a long illness. A post on his Facebook reads: with deep sorrow we have to inform you that Klaus yesterday on ...

On Tuesday, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced its next music director, the Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä. Mäkelä will be the orchestra’s 11th music director, effective in the 2027-28 concert ...

Klaus Schulze, the pioneering German electronic musician who helped shape the genre with both krautrock giants and Tangerine Dream alongside a prolific solo career, has died at the age of 74. The ...

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We have been here before. And more than once. You may remember, some 15 years ago, when Gustavo Dudamel assumed the music directorship of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and pandemonium broke out within ...

German composer and musician Klaus Schulze, a pioneer in the field of electronic music and leading figure in what came to be known as “Kraut-rock,” died Tuesday. He was 74 and the death was described ...