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…
Photo by GR Stocks, courtesy of Unsplash
Essay
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…
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…
Sarah Kirkland Snider -- Courtesy of artist
Interview

Sarah Kirkland Snider Reframes Chronic Illness as a Creative Force in New Opera “HILDEGARD”

Aspen Music Festival and School, Beth Morrison Projects, Hildegard von Bingen, Sarah Kirkland Snider
Sarah Kirkland Snider dreamed of writing the opera HILDEGARD in college. She first came to know Hildegard von Bingen as a person purported to have chronic intractable migraines; Snider has suffered th…
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Essay
Money Matters is a NewMusicBox x I CARE IF YOU LISTEN collaboration, supported by New Music USA There are many well-known stories about composers working outside of music: Edgard Varèse once sold…
Ashley DuBose -- Photo by Jayme Halbritter
Ashley DuBose — Photo by Jayme Halbritter

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Sivan Cohen Elias -- Photo by Patrick Pelham
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