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Blending Global Folk Traditions with Western Classical Music: How Far Is Too Far?

Hamed Erfani, Iranian music, Middle Eastern music, Western classical music, Yasaman Seif

In today’s global village, the desire to merge traditions has never been stronger. There is no longer a need to travel to learn about music: social media allows people to discover new music from…

Nov 11, 2025

Interview

5 Questions to Lu Coy (mixed media artist)

Anna Luisa Petrisko, Blonde Redhead, Estrellx Supernova, Four Larks, Getty Research Institute, LILLETH, Lu Coy, New Original Works Festival, NOW, Paradise Khanmalek, REDCAT, San Cha, Sebastian Peters-Lazaro, VIBRATION GROUP

The creative output of queer multimedia artist Lu Coy is expansive; their works encompass electroacoustic composition, song, installation, theater, and ceremony, and are often rooted in their Indigeno…

Yaz Lancaster

Nov 10, 2025

Carolina Noguera -- Photo by Juan Camilo Montañez

Playlist

ListN Up Playlist: Carolina Noguera (November 6, 2025)

Canela Palacios, Cantoras de Villa Rica, Carola Bauckholt, Carolina Noguera, Carolina Noguera Palau, Conrad Tao, Diana Ortiz, James Díaz, Juan Carlos Higuita, Julia Suh, Julia Wolfe, Karin Hellqvist, Leonila Dinas, Manglar Trio, María Valencia, Michelle Agnes Magalhaes, Músicas del Río, Nestor Vivas, Ricardo Descalzo, SIGMA Project Sax Quartet, Universidad Javeriana, Yorleyer Dinas

I am a composer, improvisor and lecturer, from Cali, Colombia, currently living in Bogotá, Colombia. As a musician, my career has taken place in Cali, Bogotá, and Birmingham, UK, first as a pianist an…

Nov 5, 2025

Photo by GR Stocks, courtesy of Unsplash

Essay

Do We Truly Celebrate Each Other’s Success? On Envy, Empathy, and the Illusion of Merit in Classical Music

As a classical pianist born to Russian and Kurdish roots in Scandinavia, I’ve always been aware of how identity shapes the way we connect and are perceived. Moving between cultures teaches you to list…

Lana Suran

Nov 4, 2025

Lucy Fitz Gibbon with ACO, sculpture wall by Daniel Rozin -- Photo by Alfred Kan

Concert

American Composers Orchestra Explores Artistic Ingenuity and Cultural Commentary on “The New Virtuoso” Program

Aaron Israel Levin, American Composers Orchestra, Christina Bouey, Daniel Kramer, Daniel Rozin, Elijah Daniel Smith, Erike Dohi, Greg Tate, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Mazz Swift, Mélisse Brunet, Raven Chacon, Tamar Muskal

A stalwart in the creation and support of new classical music for the last half century, American Composers Orchestra is firmly in its next era thanks to new leadership and increasingly topical progra…

Stephanie Boyd

Nov 3, 2025

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