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Poiesis Quartet -- Photo by Lisa Marie Mazzucco

Playlist

ListN Up: Poiesis Quartet (May 7, 2026)

Angélica Negrón, Ayane Kozasa, Bill Evans, Du Yun, Eleanor Alberga, Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, George Barrow, Ivaluarjuk, JACK Quartet, Kathleen Ivaluarjuk Merritt, Kronos Quartet, Nathalie Joachim, Oberlin Commission Project, Oliver Nelson, Paul Chambers, Paul Wiancko, Poiesis Quartet, Roy Haynes, Spektral Quartet, Thomas Bowes, Yosi Horikawa

Lauded for their “palpable chemistry and remarkable warmth” (San Francisco Classical Voice), the Poiesis Quartet is the First Prize and Commission Prize winners of the 2025 Banff International String…

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

May 7, 2026

Goal Weight (Marguerite Cox and Jennifer Gersten) -- Photo by Vivian Wang

Album

Chance Meeting Leads to Fruitful Collaboration on Goal Weight’s “Keep Telling Yourself That”

Goal Weight, Jennifer Gersten, Marguerite Cox, Relative Pitch Records

What does it mean to bring a project to life with a collaborator you met by chance — say, at a celebrity yoga retreat during the pandemic? Keep Telling Yourself That, the debut album from Goal Weight,…

Michelle Hromin

May 6, 2026

CHAINES and Laura van der Heijden perform at Manchester Collective's

Concert

Music Flies Free in “Papillons” from Manchester Collective

Anssi Karttunen, Camberwell Incredibles, Cee Haines, CHAINES, Daniel Hay-Gordon, El Perry, Imogen Holst, Kaija Saariaho, Laura van der Heijden, Manchester Collective, Thick & Tight

The tagline for the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival is ‘a multi-arts festival powered by orchestral music.’ This must be interpreted in the context of contemporary debates about how to broaden…

Caroline Potter

May 5, 2026

Kavyesh Kaviraj -- Photo by Benny Moreno

Interview

Kavyesh Kaviraj Wears His Influences on His Sleeve – And Reminds Us of Our Common Humanity

American Composers Forum, Ernest Bisong, Grant West, Kavyesh Kaviraj, Khamara Pettus, Recomposing America, Reverend Carl Walker, Walker|West Music Academy

“One might describe [my style] as a patchwork: you can really find the seams when you’re browsing through the embroidery,” Kavyesh Kaviraj told me over Zoom. “It’s pretty similar to what I feel like a…

A. Kori Hill

Apr 30, 2026

International Contemporary Ensemble at Hannah Kendall Composer Portrait -- Photo by Stephanie Berger for Miller Theatre at Columbia University

Concert

Disorienting Dread in the Works of Hannah Kendall

Carrie Frey, Columbia University, Damian Norfleet, Hannah Kendall, International Contemporary Ensemble, Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, Jonathan Finlayson, Josh Modney, Levy Lorenzo, Miller Theatre, Nuiko Wadden, Timothy James Robinson, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Yu-Ting Cheng

Hannah Kendall expresses her fascination with a multi-dimensional rainbow of timbre through her retelling of plantation history and her unearthing of the hope that both inexplicably and inevitably ros…

Stephanie Boyd

Apr 29, 2026

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