Frankie Ross is director of operations for next week’s Fastnet Film Festival in Schull, Co Cork.

Anti-war oratorio ‘A Child of Our Time’ will open Cork choral festival, says Jo Kerrigan.

Internationally renowned Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa has been found dead in her apartment in the Austrian capital. She was 33.

Virginia Kerr will perform the famous Requiem at the opening of the Cork International Choral Festival, writes Colette Sheridan

Handel’s Messiah, recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, has been given an X certificate by Apple Computer’s online iTunes Music Store.