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Review: Talea Ensemble Composer Spotlight on Amadeus Regucera

Adrian Morejon, Amadeus Regucera, Cy Twombly, Dennis Sullivan, EMPAC, James Baker, Joseph Jordan, Mike Lormand, Sae Hashimoto, Talea Ensemble

There is no music without the body. String players live with rock-hard finger callouses. Wind and brass players could shift sails with their pulmonary exertions. Pianists and percussionists fire up mu…

Daniele Sahr

Oct 14, 2026

Interview

Mali Obomsawin is Looking for the Breaking Point

Allison Burik, billy woods, Deerlady, Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, Magdalena Abrego, Mali Obomsawin, Noah Campbell, Out of Your Head Records, Pharoah Sanders, Taylor Ho Bynum

The double bass is one of several tools that Mali Obomsawin uses in a career that spans free jazz, experimentalism, film scoring, and a punk ethos. As a kid, she initially wanted to follow in her olde…

A. Kori Hill

Oct 13, 2026

Alyssa Weinberg -- Photo by Cody Pickens

Playlist

ListN Up Playlist: Alyssa Weinberg (Oct. 8, 2026)

Alban Gerhardt, Alyssa Weinberg, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Donnacha Dennehy, Ensemble intercontemporain, Gabriel Cabezas, György Ligeti, International Contemporary Ensemble, Kaija Saariaho, Liam Byrne, Myung-Whun Chung, Nadia Sirota, Pierre Boulez, Salvatore Sciarrino, Saschko Gawriloff, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Unsuk Chin

Alyssa Weinberg uses color, texture, and gesture to channel big emotions, creating music that is “quite literally stunning” (Chicago Tribune). A celebrated composer whose music has been championed by…

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

Oct 8, 2026

Juri Seo -- Photo by Joanna Malecka Photography

Interview

5 Questions to Juri Seo (composer)

Christian Euman, Friction Quartet, JACK Quartet, Juri Seo, Linda Oh, Michael Minor, Other Minds Festival, Shawn Myers

Juri Seo thrives in the balance of complex compositional processes and aesthetic bliss. In an essay analyzing her 2016 piece More Semi Simple Variations, Seo describes recomposing the “brilliant surfa…

Jacob Kopcienski

Oct 6, 2026

Concert

Review: Julia Edith Rigby “Lithic Breathing”

Fahad Siadat, Julia Edith Rigby, Kafele Williams, The Resonance Collective

As voices and footsteps of incoming audiences echoed within the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles on the night of Sept. 27, it was easier to imagine its looming arches and shadowy alcoves as…

Isabel Li

Oct 5, 2026

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