PRISTINA, Kosovo — Last Friday afternoon, Dukagjin Lipa, 49, sat backstage at Kosovo’s first major music festival, bleary-eyed and trying to ignore the two cellphones ringing on the table in front of ...

On Thomas Ades’s piano quintet, Peter Maxwell Davies’s Naxos Quartet No. 3, two string quartets of Christos Hatzis, and David Del Tredici’s Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. Have a look at some ...

Chronic shortages of cash and instruments have left Kosovo’s few dedicated music schools in a semi-ruined state, while music classes of any type at all in many ordinary schools are just a memory. This ...

Quick, who is the most famous person you've ever heard of from Kosovo? One more: where exactly is Kosovo? If you're drawing a blank on both questions, don't worry. Rita Ora is ready to introduce the ...

Electronic music is giving space to mixed menu in Kosovo, a sign of lesser money flowing around the country but also perhaps of a new more diversity-hungry period. This post is also available in this ...

A week after headlining Lollapalooza, Dua Lipa was atop the lineup again this weekend at her own Sunny Hill Festival in Kosovo, where the singer was also named an honorary ambassador of the European ...

Action Bronson's performance at the 2018 Sunny Hill Festival in Kosovo, on Saturday night (Aug. 11), ended with him in handcuffs. It sounds like the release will either be a solo project or only ...

This is part of Global Sounds, a collection of stories spotlighting the music trends forging connections in 2024. In 2004, four years before Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, 16-year-old ...

Music can have a magical effect on children accustomed to the rumble of artillery fire, the dispiriting drone of warplanes and the life-threatening bark of the enemy. Liz Shropshire has devoted the ...