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Quiet as it’s kept, the banjo is an instrument of the African diaspora. In a performance at the Metr…
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Donna Lee Davidson
PROTOTYPE 2023 Probes the Dark Corners of Humanity and Imagines a World Beyond Civilization
Jan 18, 2023
Content warning: suicide The future of Earth has a lot of people concerned. But what if nature can t…
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Lana Norris
ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
As composition competitions have come under closer scrutiny for their age biases and even exploitati…
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Julia Kuhlman
Mark Tewarson’s Coastal is filled with the things that make up our favorite songs, tunes, and jams.
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Donna Lee Davidson
American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2023 McKni…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Venturesome Soloist’s Debut ‘Dream Catcher’ Compiles Violin Works by Augusta Read Thomas
Jan 6, 2023
For violinist Clarissa Bevilacqua, the first-prize winner of the 14th International Mozart Competiti…
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Esteban Meneses
This article was first published in Chamber Music magazine’s Winter 2023 issue and has been reprinte…
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Vanessa Rose
TAK ensemble has reached a milestone; the 2022-23 season marks their 10th anniversary as one of the…
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Kevin Baldwin
Every December, when it’s time for me to put up my Christmas tree or bake Christmas treats, the firs…
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Katie Brown
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. People often view fundraising as a “neces…
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Elise Peterson
The Philadelphia-based chamber choir The Crossing has long supported musical works that tackle socia…
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Clover Nahabedian
ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
For me, 2022 was a paradoxical year filled with confusing contradictions. I attended significantly m…
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Amanda Cook
What do we do with a healthcare system that doesn’t prioritize care and frequently strips away…
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Through striking multimedia performance, cellist Seth Parker Woods is highlighting the synergistic p…
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Dalanie Harris
London has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of quirky venues. On 2 December a pair of Australian ens…
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Caroline Potter
Composer-conductor Juan Pablo Contreras is a young artist to watch. His compositions are rooted in M…
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Lauren Ishida
It’s hard to believe that I CARE IF YOU LISTEN (ICIYL) recently marked the two-year anniversary of o…
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Amanda Cook
ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Ben LaMar Gay, a composer and cornetist from Chicago’s South Side, sculpts electro-acoustic co…
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Jillian DeGroot
Improviser-composer, scholar, bassoonist, and Karnāṭak musician Varun Rangaswamy believes that chang…
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Padideh Aghanoury
The Brooklyn institution Roulette is known as one of New York City’s stalwart experimental music ven…
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Lana Norris