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Matana Roberts--Photo by Evan Hunter McKnight

ListN Up: Matana Roberts (December 11, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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Stardust--Photo courtesy Helios Opera

Helios Opera Presents Stardust by Felix Jarrar and B.L. Foxley

As the performing arts continue to suffer from the ongoing repercussions of COVID-19, presenting org…
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Tristan McKay
Alicia Waller & The Excursion

Video Premiere: Soul by Alicia Waller & The Excursion

Today’s video premiere features Alicia Waller & The Excursion performing “Soul&#8221…
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nineteen ways of looking--Photo by Ning Zhou

Instagram Opera nineteen ways of looking is a Voyeuristic Time Capsule

nineteen ways of looking is an opera that watches you back. “The camera is now my eye…” reads the fi…
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Chrysanthe Tan
Amanda Cook

Amanda Cook and the Art of Conversation

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Amanda Cook has been the Editor-in-Chief…
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Sun Yung Shin
Katherine Balch--Photo by Lanz Photography

ListN Up: Katherine Balch (December 4, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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Mary Prescott--Photo by Erika Kapin

Mary Prescott Dishes a Warm Bowl of Self Truth in her New Work, Tida

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Interdisciplinary artist Mary Prescott di…
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Dameun Strange
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The Unheard Mixtape 1: Follow to the End Celebrates Experimentation and Black Expressive Culture

If there is a defining characteristic of 21st century classical composition, it’s a blurring o…
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A. Kori Hill
Damien Geter--Photo by Rachel Hadiashar

5 Questions to Damien Geter (composer, baritone)

The works of acclaimed composer and baritone Damien Geter range from chamber ensembles to the operat…
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Carla Canales Duende

Carla Canales Navigates Cultural In-Betweens in “Duende”

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month in October 2020, Mexican-American opera singer and arts ad…
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Yaz Lancaster
Riot Ensemble Zeitgeist Commissions--Photo courtesy HCMF/Riot Ensemble

Riot Ensemble Zeitgeist Commissions Pivot Online for HCMF 2020

The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF) has been a highlight of the new music calendar i…
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Caroline Potter
Joseph C. Phillips Jr.--Photo by Jenny Wohrle

5 Questions to Joseph C. Phillips Jr. (Numinous founder & composer)

Joseph C. Phillips Jr. is a composer who defines his own work as “mixed music,” a style…
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Clover Nahabedian
gamin--Photo by Anna Pidgorna

ListN Up: gamin (November 20, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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Nyokabi Kariuki's

Video Premiere: (no) i Don’t Want to Leave You Whole / ‘cause that may Leave Me Empty by Nyokabi Kariuki

Today’s video premiere features composer Nyokabi Kariuki performing her own work “(no),…
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Lara Downes--Photo by Jiyang Chen

5 Questions to Lara Downes (Host, AMPLIFY with Lara Downes)

Lara Downes is a multifaceted pianist whose prolific output routinely explores American music’s many…
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Jacob Kopcienski
We Are Who We Are--Photography by Yannis Drakoulidis/HBO

Dev Hynes Guides We Are Who We Are with a Classical Score and His Idol Presence

HBO quietly released We Are Who We Are this September, the first television show from director Luca…
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Greta Rainbow
Bára Gísladóttir--Photo by Gabrielle Motola

5 Questions to Bára Gísladóttir (composer, double bassist)

CW: this interview mentions suicide Icelandic composer and double-bassist Bára Gísladóttir recently…
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Miya Masaoka--Photo by Heike Liss

ListN Up: Miya Masaoka (November 13, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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HOCKET performs Christopher Stark's Les barricades quotidiennes for #What2020SoundsLike

HOCKET Premieres Fifty New Works by Asking #What2020SoundsLike

In tandem with the evolving norms of the past year, Los Angeles based piano duo HOCKET (the combined…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Photo by Daniel Ali on Unsplash

Unbroken: Making Disabled Music and Creating Accessible Spaces

I am disabled. I carry a sense of otherness due to my mental, emotional, and physical experiences. L…
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Infinity Willner
Top row: Aisha Staggers, Anthony Tan, inti figgis-vizueta Middle row: Shruthi Rajasekar, Elizabeth A. Baker, A. Kori Hill Bottom row: Chevall Pryce, Nicolas Lell Benavides, Hon Ki Cheung

“Out of Context” Concludes with Roundtable Discussion Series

This month, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN and American Composers Forum will host two roundtable discussions o…
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Angélica Negrón--Photo by Catalina Kulczar

Angélica Negrón and the Poetics of Musical Automata

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Angélica Negrón was born in Carolina, Pue…
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Sun Yung Shin
Annika Socolofsky--Photo by Nadine Dyskant-Miller

ListN Up: Annika Socolofsky (November 6, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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Damian Norfleet--Screenshot courtesy Ensemble Pi

Reparations NOW! Ensemble Pi Draws Inspiration from Kendi and Coates

On Thursday, October 29, 2020, new music collective Ensemble Pi presented Reparations NOW! at The Ce…
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Jillian DeGroot
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