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On her newly released album, Maquishti (Valley of Search), percussionist-composer Patricia Brennan o…
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Donna Lee Davidson
Though Google Maps currently marks Brooklyn’s National Sawdust venue as closed, this fertile g…
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Stephanie Boyd
Elif Yalvaç grew up in an area of Turkey where, according to her bio, guitars were hard to come by.
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Christian Kriegeskotte
ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
They Will Take My Island is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between Armenian-American composer Ma…
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Yaz Lancaster
Is it possible for Inuit-Western musical collaborations to be equitable and equal? The commission an…
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A. Kori Hill
Meaghan Burke’s A Few Concerns (Gold Bolus Recordings) is the culmination of six years of work with…
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Tristan McKay
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. An opera must have drama, and what could…
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Sun Yung Shin
ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
John Holiday is countertenor whose advocacy for the Black presence in classical performing arts alig…
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Bill Doggett
A shadow can be defined as partial or complete darkness. So it seems only appropriate that composer…
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Nilina Mason-Campbell
Wendy Eisenberg is a composer, performer, and guitarist whose music lives in the gray area between f…
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Clover Nahabedian
Amidst the social and political turmoil that has erupted in the United States over the past year, ma…
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Dalanie Harris
ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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When most musicians talk about “playing” music, what they mean is “performing.” But for improvisers…
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Julia Kuhlman
PROTOTYPE Festival has become known for nurturing intense, anguished music-theater pieces that go on…
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Lana Norris
Afa Sadykhly Dworkin is the President and Artistic Director of Detroit’s Sphinx Organization. Born i…
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Gemma Peacocke
Yvette Janine Jackson is dropping an LP entitled Freedom (Fridman Gallery) on January 29, 2021. Cons…
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Donna Lee Davidson
ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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In her newest album, AFTERPARTY (released November 8, 2020), Rhonda Taylor brings together an eclect…
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Sofía Rocha
Joseph C. Phillips Jr. composes with no limitations. Undefined by any genre, the 2016 American Compo…
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. How should future composers be trained? F…
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Sun Yung Shin
ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
