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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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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
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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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
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
Ever-growing access to arts education has resulted in a treasure-trove of skilled performers along w…
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Nebal Maysaud
As the Editor-in-chief of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, I wish I heard from more independent artists directl…
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Amanda Cook
When I think about the Institute for Composer Diversity, I think of a 2017 podcast interview with au…
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John Hong
A Cockroach’s Tarantella is the latest collaboration between JACK Quartet and composer Du Yun. Relea…
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Ciyadh Wells
After over a year of no performances due to COVID-19 restrictions, new music collective Ninth Planet…
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Padideh Aghanoury
Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features Friction Quartet performing Counter Paint: The…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
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
With over 300,000 deaths related to COVID-19 in the United States, this is more fitting a time than…
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Esteban Meneses
Two years have passed since the release of Wang Lu’s debut album Urban Inventory, making the release…
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Jennifer Jolley
If this year has delivered any sort of message about our field, it’s that artists will inevita…
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Amanda Cook
