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Juilliard Preparatory Division students--Photo by Rachel Papo

ACF, Juilliard, and NY Philharmonic Receive Sphinx Venture Fund for Co-Commissions

Editor’s note: As of February 15, 2022, applications are now open for Composing Inclusion. Com…
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Classical Music’s Data-Driven Race Reckoning (And What’s Holding us Back)

In the arts, as in other fields, data can be a powerful tool for accountability, but it has also bec…
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Mansi Shah
Pauline Kim Harris performs Annie Gosfield's Long Waves and Random Pulses

Video Premiere: Pauline Kim Harris Performs “Long Waves and Random Pulses” (Gosfield)

The sounds of deteriorating and malfunctioning technology frequently permeate the works of composer…
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Behind the scenes filming for Angélica Negrón's The Island We Made for Opera Philadelphia's Digital Commissions--Photo by Olivia Dipasca

The Case for Digital Opera in a Post-Pandemic World

It’s no secret that opera as both an artform and an industry has suffered from some serious ga…
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Elena Stabile
Baljinder Sekhon--Photo by Stephanie Swindle Thomas

ListN Up: Baljinder Sekhon (November 5, 2021)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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Shawn Okpebholo--Photo by Greg Halvorsen Schreck

5 Questions to Shawn Okpebholo (composer)

Shawn Okpebholo is a widely sought after award-winning composer who has been described by composer A…
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Bill Doggett
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JJJJJerome Ellis Reframes Disability as a Means for Creation in “The Clearing”

For artist, writer and composer JJJJJerome Ellis, his name poses a challenge; not a challenge of ide…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Charmaine Lee--Screenshot courtesy of Roulette

Charmaine Lee Delivers Electrifying, Experimental Improvisation at Roulette

There’s a weirdly reflexive magnetism between New Zealanders who live overseas. I think we find comf…
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Gemma Peacocke
Ting Luo, Founder of New Arts Collaboration

5 Questions to Ting Luo (Founder, New Arts Collaboration)

New Arts Collaboration (NAC), founded by pianist Ting Luo, is dedicated to bringing artists together…
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Tristan McKay
Cleo Reed--Photo by Cressida Fletcher

ListN Up: Cleo Reed (October 29, 2021)

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Speaking Together: Rufus Isabel Elliot on the Trans, Non-Binary, and Gender-Diverse World of OVER / AT

Rufus uses it/its pronouns. Rufus Isabel Elliot is a composer, musician, and the creative force behi…
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Chrysanthe Tan
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Learning to Listen from Deaf Communities (Casting Light #6)

“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art…
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Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Vilma Jackson
Artifacts Trio...and then there's this

Artifacts Trio Builds a Bridge to the Unknown on “…and then there’s this”

The provocative title of the latest album from Artifacts Trio, …and then there’s this, suggest…
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Dalanie Harris
Tina Tallon--Photo by Rose Lincoln

5 Questions to Tina Tallon (creative technologist, sound artist)

Tina Tallon began her career as a researcher at MIT, where she developed computational tools to mode…
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Gemma Peacocke
Teiya Kasahara--Photo by Janet Kimber

ListN Up: Teiya Kasahara (October 22, 2021)

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The Soapbox Presents

The Soapbox Presents: Claiming Space for Black Joy

On July 3, 2021, all four corners of a busy Harlem intersection overflowed with funk. New York City…
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Lana Norris
Gina Izzo ladyybirdd

Video Premiere: Gina Izzo performs “into what is wanted” from “ladyybirdd”

“Stay until you lose the urge to leave.” This was the only musical instruction that flut…
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Daniel Alexander Jones--Photo by Rafael Hernandez

On the Ground and in the Weeds with Daniel Alexander Jones 

To understand the blueprint of who Daniel Alexander Jones is as a multidisciplinary artist and thoug…
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Lina Gonzalez-Granados--Photo by Toby Oft

5 Questions to Lina Gonzalez-Granados (conductor)

Colombian conductor Lina Gonzalez-Granados is a beautiful example of the incredible level of musical…
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Natalie Calma
Rajna Swaminathan--Photo by Yaara Perczek

ListN Up: Rajna Swaminathan (October 15, 2021)

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gabby fluke-mogul--Photo by Rachael Uhlir

5 Questions to gabby fluke-mogul (violinist, improviser, composer)

gabby fluke-mogul is a violinist, improviser, and composer whose music experiments with the boundari…
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Clover Nahabedian
Anna Clyne--Photo by Christina Kernohan

5 Questions to Anna Clyne (composer)

London-born Anna Clyne is a GRAMMY-nominated composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Since…
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Jennifer Jolley
AACM's Great Black Music Ensemble--Photo courtesy of the AACM

ACF Announces Compositions Celebrating the AACM’s 55th Anniversary

American Composers Forum (ACF) is thrilled to announce the premieres of music commissioned through i…
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Darius Jones--Photo by Ebru Yildiz

ListN Up: Darius Jones (October 8, 2021)

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