I was born in Rome, Italy, in December 1960. I have lived in Italy most of my life, except the five and a half years (1996-2001) I spent in Finland working as a university lecturer...

NEW YORK - Michael Brecker, a versatile and influential tenor saxophonist who won 11 Grammys over a career that spanned more than three decades, died Saturday. He was 57...

IT may be a while yet before a song from the Outer Hebrides is sashaying to the top of the download charts, but if anyone is in with a chance of introducing Scots Gaelic songs to a mainstream audience, then it is Julie Fowlis...

London - Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip were due to leave on Monday for their first tour of the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia...

CAMPBELL Avenue is impressively lively for a Wednesday afternoon, and the members of Strata are clearly familiar faces on this downtown strip. Several people spot them and call out, to which the guys smile and wave back...

SoundtrackNet continues our head-long dive into the summer scores of 2007 with John Ottman's return to the superhero genre! Two years after the original film, he's back in familiar territory with FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER...

My girlfriend and I are spending 3 weeks in Oz from 23 November - 13 December, taking in Sydney, Melbourne and Byron Bay...